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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:20:04 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-10
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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 is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences
between this package and the simultaneously-released ncurses-5.7-1
for cygwin-1.5 are documentation related (the README references
cygport-0.9.4 and cygwin-1.7.0-40, and the /usr/share/doc/ layout is
influenced by the cygport changes between 0.4.x and 0.9.x).

Future development may add re-entrancy support, multithread support, and
wide character (UTF) support.  However, those changes will require an
ABI change and DLL name modification.  This release, intended to be
backwards compatible with existing libncurses8, does NOT enable any of
those experimental features.

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IMPORTANT:  You must upgrade libncurses8 (to 5.7-10) and terminfo (to
5.7_20090221-10) simultaneously.
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CHANGES since 5.5-3:
========================
o Update to latest release (5.7) with current patchset (20090221)
o Fork from cygwin-1.5 package development stream
o Build using stock cygport 0.9.4
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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