ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling
libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used
instead of termcap.
This is a packaging bug fix.
[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]]
If all goes as planned (famous last words) this will most likely be
the final ncurses update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution. This
release differs from the simultaneously-released ncurses-5.7-14
for cygwin-1.7 in several ways:
1) The cygwin-1.7 version has been updated to upstream
patchlevel 20090321; the cygwin-1.5 version remains at
20090228.
2) The standard documentation differences related to cygport-0.9.5
vs. cygport-0.4.4.
CHANGES since 5.7-4
========================
o Rebuild to correct a problem with man pages incorrectly
installed. Thanks to Lee Rothstein for the report.
(old) CHANGES since 5.5-3:
========================
o Update to latest release (5.7) with current patchset (20090228)
o Build using stock cygport 0.4.3
o Build using --with-ticlib (separate add-on library exposes
internal ncurses details), so that the (now) separately-distributed
tack program can link successfully.
- libncurses9 package now additionally includes cygtic-9.dll
o Turned on 5-button mouse support and sp-funcs
- these changes, together with the separate ticlib and termlib,
constitute a new ABI, which is why the DLL version number was
bumped to 9.
o Did not enable reentrancy, threading support, or wide character
support. For the first two, see
/usr/share/doc/ncurses-*/ThreadingSupport.
The last item may be added later, but only for cygwin-1.7.
o Modified spelling of public, but accessor-wrapped data symbols
to avoid "private" _nc_* namespace. This ABI change does NOT
affect the API as used by clients (that is, no source code changes
should be needed).
o Added preremove script, in preparation for deprecating the
back-compatibility symlinks in /usr/lib/ncurses and /usr/include.
This is more of a cygwin-1.7 item, than applicable to cygwin-1.5.
o Upstream changes:
- tack program now distributed separately
- pkg-config .pc files now provided
- ncurses9-config script now provided
- many more demo programs in ncurses-demo
- /usr/share/terminfo database now organized by hex code
of first character (e.g. instead of r/rxvt, we have 72/rxvt
(0x72 == 'r').
--
Charles Wilson
volunteer ncurses maintainer for cygwin
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