terminfo

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:14:22AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> HOWEVER, if I were to do it today, I would be inclined to use netbsd's
> libtinfo and cdb modules and switch to terminfo as the source of
> truth.  It is my understanding that netbsd's libtinfo "compiles" into
> a .cdb format file and gives us the same flexibility that we have with
> termcap/termcap.db without the non-extensible sysv binary format
> lock-in.  Then have ncurses use it instead, like netbsd does.  We get

ncurses has been extensible since release 5.0 in 1999 (long enough to notice).
It's supported hashed-database since 2006 (which is the way I build it on my *BSD machines).

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
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