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Re: dte: remove curses and terminfo includes



Kevin Bloom <kevin.bloom%posteo.net@localhost> writes:

>> Breaking changes:
>> - Removed support for linking to the system terminfo library. The
>>   terminfo database has only been used as a last resort source of
>>   information for several releases now. Most terminals that people
>>   are likely to be using already have built-in support in the editor,
>>   including several capabilities not available from terminfo. This is
>>   listed as a breaking change because it may break support for a few
>>   archaic hardware terminals (primarily those that aren't ECMA-48
>>   compatible or whose terminfo strings contain mandatory padding).
>
> I'd say given this information, we leave them out. I can write
> something up in the COMMIT_MSG to explain it as Greg mentioned.

Thanks.  All sounds good to me; I just like to a see a "packaging
changes" type comment for anything that isn't obvious.

In this case, part of what's not obvious is that programs that do the
sorts of things this editor seems to do *should* be using a
terminfo/termcap kind of database so they are portable, but apparently
this upstream has decided to limit support to the dominant protocol.
Upstream's call on upstream's approach, of course, but it didn't make
sense to me as a reviewer.


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