Re: curses: create panel from stdscr?

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:47:17 +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:09:06PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 
> This does leave us in the invidious position of our correctness
> being interpreted as bugs because we don't do what ncurses
> does....it is a constant, losing, battle.
[...]
> It is wrong and a pain but ncurses has the larger market share so
> whatever we do different is considered a but so we may as well just suck
> it up and make our libpanel have the same brokenness.

Shouldn't we just cvs rm our curses then?

As I said, in this case someone without a clue wrote a trivial test
for set_panel_userptr() and created a panel for that test using stdscr
because it's conveniently there, saves a line to create a new window.

-uwe