Re: tic and a directory terminfo layout

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

I think it would be good to make the database modular, and to stop
requiring having everything in one binary blob. I don't see any
downsides to Roy's suggestion.

Jaromir

2017-05-09 21:48 GMT+02:00 Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>:
> On 09.05.2017 16:50, Roy Marples wrote:
>> On 09/05/2017 12:51, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> I don't have a preference, but I'm surprised that our single .cdb
>>> approach is going to be hybrid with support for ncurses layout.
>>
>> Other ideas welcome on how to allow pkgsrc to integrate terminfo
>> descriptions.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>
> Are we far from just integrating these custom definitions present today
> in pkgsrc into our base database? They aren't AGPLv3 or similar. Merging
> existing ones and give an option to add a custom one into our base
> terminfo database on demand (MESSAGE for a user) looks liek the best
> option to me. I assume new definitions are rather rarely created.
>
> $TERMINFO could be supported as an alternative (backup, testing, ...)
> .cdb database that could be specified in env(1).
>
> This is a point of view of a user / consumer of terminfo.
>