cvs commit: ports/irc/weechat Makefile ports/irc/weechat/files patch-cmake-FindLua_cmake patch-src-gui-curses-CMakeLists_txt patch-src-gui-curses-gui_curses_h patch-src-gui-curses-gui_curses_term_c

[Jase Thew]

On 31/07/2012 03:57, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [This is now r300767]
> 
> On 2012-Jul-11 12:05:13 +0000, Jase Thew <jase at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>  - Use devel/ncurses as it provides ability for 256 color support for
>>    ncursesw
> 
> Is there a particular reason why the use of devel/ncurses was made
> mandatory?  The 256 colour support in devel/ncurses is optional and
> disabled by default, so this doesn't seem to have any effect unless
> you build devel/ncurses with non-standard options.  OTOH, installing
> devel/ncurses has the downside that, once installed, all ports are
> forced to be built with it and it has a number of downsides compared
> to the base ncurses (the excessive use of "alternate screen" is my pet
> hatred and I've just spent several hours tracking down why my newly
> built mutt was "broken").
> 

Hi Peter,

In hindsight, making devel/ncurses a mandatory dependency was a mistake.
I'll be committing an update to both irc/weechat and irc/weechat-devel
to change this to an optional dependency (defaulting to not selected) as
soon as the patches pass mentor review.

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience or wasted time this has
caused you.

Regards,

Jase.
-- 
Jase Thew
jase at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Ports Committer


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