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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:28:15 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {terminfo0/terminfo0-extra}-5.5_20061104-2
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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)
========================
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

====================================================================

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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