[csw-maintainers] New in testing/: ncurses 5.7

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:06:50PM +0100, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> > After reading the bug report I get the impression that the
> > Solaris implementation of xterm is missing the necessary
> > control character support. Modifying the xterm spec would
> > be bad, as http://opencsw.org/packages/xterm supports the
> > sequence.
> 
> Mhh, how then would you prevent issues as the one being described in the
> bug report? If you leave the capabilities in the xterm terminfo file
> provided with CSWncurses, applications linked against CSWncurses running
> in a Solaris xterm are prone to mess up the display.

take the extra capabilities out, from the ncurses terminfo file.


> On the other hand: From what i have seen when i deleted the two
> capabilities from the terminfo file, it doesn't matter to ncurses
> applications whether the two affected capabilities are present or not.
> ncurses just falls back to other capabilities for cursor positioning.
> 
> So why not just drop the capabilities?

and sounds like you agree also.

Perhaps you could specify which ones you dropped to fix things, for the
benefit of the current (in progress) ncurses maintainer