Re: terminfo implementation

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:02:11 +0100
Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:

> Hi list
> 
> I've been working on a terminfo implementation and this part is now 
> pretty much done, although there is one encoding type that needs to be 
> finished and the tputs needs to work with ncurses values as well. You 
> can see the source here. Basic tic and infocmp utilities are included.
> http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/terminfo.tar.bz2
> 
> I've not included a terminal description file as I propose we use the 
> ncurses one.
> 
> This is compatible with the terminfo x/open standard with respect to 
> tparm. tparmv is provided as well, and if you #define TPARM_VARARGS then 
> tparm is mapped to tparmv to provide source compatibility with default 
> ncurses.
> 
> tmux-0.8 needs a tiny patch to work with this, basically adding the 
> #define, removing the #include <ncurses.h> line and replacing OK with 0.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about merging this into the tree? I think we 
> can add it as a new library and slowly move code over to using 
> libterminfo instead of libtermcap, although this does mean mainting two 
> different databases until completed as my libterminfo does not have any 
> libtermcap capabilities.

Hi!

Sounds nice! Can you still ensure binary compatibility with old applications
using libtermcap after that proposed future removal?

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