Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/03/01/17:33:06
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that
enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications.
Due to a change in the terminfo database organization (but not file
format) expected by libncurses9, existing applications that use the
legacy libncurses8 library require a copy of the terminfo database
organized using the old arrangement. This package, which can be
installed alongside the updated terminfo package, provides that
backwards-compatible terminfo database.
The new terminfo, in order to improve operation on case-insensitive
platforms, is now organized 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 (terminfo0) ---> NEW (terminfo)
r/rxvt-unicode 72/rxvt-unicode
Additionally, the database itself has been split into two parts. The
basic part contains most of the terminal definitions commonly used on
the cygwin platform, and a selection of others. The terminfo0-extra
package provides all of the others (again, arranged using the "old"
libncurses8-compatible organization).
This is a cygwin-1.5-specific package. There may (or may not) be one
final, additional update of this legacy terminfo0 package, but it isn't
likely.
CHANGES (since 5.5_20061104-1)
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o Reformulate packaging and renamed.
o Build using stock cygport 0.4.3
o Build using tic0.exe NOT tic.exe. tic0 is a version of the
terminfo compiler which is statically-linked against libncurses8,
so that it installs the compiled terminfo data using the old
organization.
o Split into two packages: terminfo0 and terminfo0-extra.
- terminfo0 contains the same terminals provided by Fedora 10's
'ncurses-base' package, such as cygwin, vt*, xterm*,
putty*, screen*, and rxvt*, and a few others.
- terminfo0-extra contains everything else.
--
Charles Wilson
terminfo volunteer maintainer for cygwin
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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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