Re: HEADS UP: terminfo imported into -current

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Roy Marples wrote:
> On 02/04/10 04:33, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> >     Hello.  And the advantages of terminfo over termcap are, exactly,
> > what, again?  Why are we making this change?  Was it discussed on the
> > lists?  What does it buy us?  Solaris did this, and it was a pain in the
> > proverbial backside 15 years ago.  And, I'm not sure it made things 
> > better,
> > even to this day.  I'm not against having termcap and terminfo, but I 
> > think
> > we should discuss the merrits of this change  before doing it.
>
> We hashed this out on tech-userlevel about 8 months ago.
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/06/05/msg002214.html

There was definitely a lot of discussions, but I couldn't find anywhere 
any agreement that moving to terminfo was a good idea, or that it should 
be done. Do you have any reference to that part?

        Johnny