X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS Message-Id: Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:29:02 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: libncurses8-5.5-10; New tic0-5.5-10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-3 ]] As the current ncurses distribution now provides libncurses9, this is a backwards-compatibility update for existing applications that rely on libncurses8. In addition, because the on-disk terminfo database layout (but not file format) expected by libncurses9 differs from that used by libncurses8, a new package containing a libncurses8-compatible version of the terminfo compiler, tic, has been added to the distribution. This version of tic is statically linked against libncurses8, and is renamed 'tic0' so as not to conflict with the newer, libncurses9-dependent version. This is the first (non-brown-paper-bag) release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously- released libncurses8-5.5-4 and tic0-5.5-4 for cygwin-1.5 are documentation related (the README references cygport-0.9.4 and cygwin-1.7.0-41, and the /usr/share/doc/ layout is influenced by the cygport changes between 0.4.x and 0.9.x). CHANGES since 5.5-3: ======================== o Fork for cygwin-1.7 development o Build using stock cygport-0.9.4 o Reformulate packaging and build procedure specifically for this "dll-only" backwards-compatibility package. o Link utility programs statically (but only ship tic.exe, renamed to tic0.exe). o Change dependency to terminfo0, the backwards-compatible version of the terminfo database. -- 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/