Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 15:22:20 +0200 From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5) Message-ID: <f0d055f4-8529-bfd5-ea7c-7cbc210b97da@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net> References: <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net>
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Hi, On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5) > Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: > "Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination." > > Which I do not find really useful. > > I would like to make the move from termcap to terminfo which would give us the > bonus to be able to track terminfo sources from upstream aka ncurses and to > add and use tic(1). That's great! I've been bitten by termcap not being well understood by the open source community many times. I am supporting the move to terminfo wholeheartedly. > If you have some knowledge you want to share: "be careful about this or that" I > would be more than happy to collect it, to make sure the transition is as smooth > as possible. What comes to my mind is that we should probably pay special attention to terminal ports, like x11/sterm. We might need to tell those ports to install their terminfo files. I don't remember the details though. Cheers, Mateusz
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