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Re: Add curses_version() in curses(3)



On 27.08.2019 19:29, Roy Marples wrote:
> Using Blymns correct email :)
> 
> On 27/08/2019 18:28, Roy Marples wrote:
>> On 27/08/2019 17:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> Last year, I wrote this patch to add curses_version() for curses(3).
>>>
>>> http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00073-curses-version.txt
>>>
>>> The only purpose of this function is to get better compat with ncurses
>>> software.
>>>
>>> I needed it originally in qemu. It's sometimes used in the wild.
>>>
>>> Is it fine to merge it with src/?
>>
>> Maybe make it return something like
>>
>> "NetBSD-curses-8.2"
>>
>> Where 8.2 is taken from the .so version?
>>
>> Roy

I think that it would be confused with NetBSD release and it could be
meaningless/confusing for downstream users that just pick the code as is
and can pick different major/minor.

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