Re: Defaulting to ncursesw

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On Friday, May 3rd, 2024 at 11:43 AM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost> wrote:

> Separate to the merging of devel/ncurses and devel/ncursesw, I'd like to
> acknowledge that it's 2024 and simply make the ncursesw API the default,
> perhaps in the update to 6.5 (if folks could hold off on doing that
> update yet I'd appreciate it).
> 
> Specifically that means doing something similar to what FreeBSD did a
> few years ago in this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/9105b6b7a84795a82fc3fdc82febe70bb9a6c53f
> 
> and simply make libncurses and ncurses/*.h the wide API.
> 
> This wouldn't have any bearing on folks using e.g. native NetBSD curses
> and support for PKG_OPTIONS=wide-curses, but would made a bunch of
> things a lot simpler, as well as getting support for wide-curses for
> free for those of us who use ncurses from pkgsrc.
> 
> Obviously I'd do a lot of testing, but am interested to hear of any
> particular reasons why we shouldn't do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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