On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which > > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5) > > Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: > > "Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination." > > > > Which I do not find really useful. > > > > I would like to make the move from termcap to terminfo which would give us > > the > > bonus to be able to track terminfo sources from upstream aka ncurses and to > > add and use tic(1). > That's great! I've been bitten by termcap not being well understood by the > open source community many times. I am supporting the move to terminfo > wholeheartedly. > > If you have some knowledge you want to share: "be careful about this or > > that" I > > would be more than happy to collect it, to make sure the transition is as > > smooth > > as possible. > > What comes to my mind is that we should probably pay special attention to > terminal ports, like x11/sterm. We might need to tell those ports to install > their terminfo files. I don't remember the details though. > All their terminfo files are already in recent ncurses, so we will have nothing to do with them.
Best regards, Bapt
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