From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 22:25:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03129 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03124 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id BAA21038; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:25:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id BAA20521; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:26:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:26:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: termcap/curses vs ncurses In-Reply-To: <199604080509.JAA01029@astral.msk.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA =FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7 wrote: > > =09curses is dated '94, termcap is dated '93, and I haven't figured > > out what mytinfo is used for, but its dated '92, while ncurses is being > > mytinfo is terminfo emulator. > =09what do you mean by an 'emulator'? does ncurses replace it, or does it augment ncurses? is there currently any reason to keep it in the library try? > proper way: > Pass#1: bring up 1.9.9 ncurses =09Okay, but this has to be brought up with termcap only support, which to me, means that we are taking a perfectly good library and hacking to do something that it wasn't meant to do (namely, use termcap) > Pass#2: replace mytinfo with fake dummy library =09What code requires mytinfo that mytinfo can't just be removed from the source tree? > Pass#3: duplicate ncurses to curses (symlinks) > =09Meaning that we can get rid of libcurses altogether. =09But, again, the problem comes down to termcap vs terminfo :) =09Is *everyone* set against terminfo? If so, I'll work on 1.9.9 so that it parses only termcap and doesn't create a .terminfo directory, just sounds crippling to me :( =09I'll try to have it up and working by the end of this week, had most of it done today, and then sup'd in a new -current forgetting to put a refuse file in for libncurses *sigh* won't make *that* mistake again. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc