At 7:52 am 2/4/96, Jason Downs wrote:
>In message <199604020121.RAA17420@netcom23.netcom.com>,
>        J.T. Conklin writes:
>>That was the plan, but IMO ncurses still isn't in good enough shape to
>>integrate into NetBSD.  I am tracking ncurses development, submitting
>>patches, etc.  It's getting better, and I plan on integrating it as
>>soon as I feel it's "ready".

I'm curious, what does it need in order to be "ready"?

I do know one thing that it needs: it needs to realize that Linux
shlibs != {SunOS,NetBSD,FreeBSD} shlibs.  @#$*&!! symlinks everywhere.

>ncurses is literally *filled* with messy code, and it's straight ANSI C.
>
>Going to ncurses would be more of a retreat for NetBSD then a move
>forward.

It's also inevitable.  Bostic (if I remember correctly) has stated
that BSD curses is dead, and that ncurses is the replacement.  So if
you don't like src/lib/libcurses, get

<URL:ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/zm/zmbenhal/ncurses/ncurses-1.9.9e.tar.gz>

and report any bugs you find to <URL:mailto:ncurses-list@netcom.com>.
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