Re: Importing tmux into base

[Roy Marples <roy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 08/02/2011 12:48, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:23:51AM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> > This tmux package somehow depends on ncurses (and didn't have a
> > compile-time option to build against curses instead), I've not looked
> > more into it.  I assume that this might be because it requires features
> > that are absent of curses on stable NetBSD releases such as terminfo.
>
> That is something to look at, indeed.  Getting tmux to work with curses
> is a prerequisite for its import I presume.  (Note that roy@ says he wrote
> a terminfo implementation; the package probably needs some extra logic to
> avoid ncurses.)

tmux should not require ncurses if the base OS already defines a 
terminfo implementation, which -current has for just over a year.

Infact any package which requires curses or terminfo in pkgsrc should be 
using the terminfo.buildlink3.mk and curses.buildlink3.mk in pkgsrc/mk 
instead of just blindly depending on ncurses.

> > Personally I don't object about having it in the base system if it
> > plays well with curses.

tmux doesn't use curses as such, or didn't last I checked.

Thanks

Roy