Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/02/24/00:11:16
Just curious since I'm new here. Why do announcements go to this list?
Isn't there an announcement list?
Yes, I can filter these to trash easily enough.
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:21:46 -0500
Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> wrote:
> 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.
>
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