Updating ncurses in base
Thomas David Rivers
rivers at dignus.com
Sat Jun 10 02:38:54 UTC 2006
Unfortunately, I won't be able to test the newer curses
anytime soon...
But - I did report some years ago that c3270 doesn't build
with the current ncurses because of a name clash. If someone
gets a chance, it might be a good idea to test that port
with the newer ncurses.
- Thanks -
- Dave Rivers -
> Hi,
>
> [I'm also CC'ed peter@ since he is the maintainer of ncurses in base]
>
> As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old
> (it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest
> version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the description,
> goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL:
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