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Date: | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:19:31 -0500 |
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ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. This will most likely be the final ncurses update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will continue with ncurses-5.7-10 for cygwin-1.7. ************************ IMPORTANT: You must upgrade libncurses8 (to 5.7-1) and terminfo (to 5.7_20090221-1) simultaneously. ************************ CHANGES since 5.5-3: ======================== o Update to latest release (5.7) with current patchset (20090221) o Build using stock cygport 0.4.3 o Build with --with-ticlib (separate add-on library exposes internal ncurses details), so that the (now) separately-distributed tack program can link successfully. - libncurses8 package now additionally includes cygtic-8.dll o Upstream changes: - tack program now distributed separately - pkg-config .pc files now provided - ncurses8-config script now provided - many more demo programs in ncurses-demo - /usr/share/terminfo database now organized by hex code of first character (e.g. instead of r/rxvt, we have 72/rxvt (0x72 == 'r'). See warning, below. WARNING: ======================== Because of a slight change in the organization of the terminfo database, terminfo entries NOT part of the terminfo package may need to be manually upgraded or moved. To improve operation on case-insensitive platforms, the terminfo database is now organizaed according to the two-digit hexadecimal code of the entry's first letter, instead of organized according to that first letter itself. For instance: OLD ---> NEW r/rxvt-unicode 72/rxvt-unicode To "fix" any out-of-place entries, you may manually move them to the correct location, or re-run tic.exe on the original terminfo source for that terminal. In the case of rxvt-unicode: $ /etc/postinstall/rxvt-unicode.sh.done will do the job. -- Charles Wilson ncurses volunteer maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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