[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs joe

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> Please recompile without it.
>
> Why? ncurses is on almost any machine anyway and joe needs ncurses to
> read updated terminal descriptions.
>
>

didnt we go through this already, a few months ago? :-)
ncurses is not a significant add to functionality: existing solaris
curses lib can pick up the extra functionality such as color, if you
set your TERM correctly.

If joe was a larger editor, i wouldnt fuss quite so much about it -
however, it is a really nice, small, "one-shot download" editor.

Adding ncurses, messes that up. So please remove the extra,
unneccessary, dependancy.

Here's another data point for you:

the ncurses package itself, **is 4 times as big as the joe package** !!!


-rw-r--r--   1 dam      staff     471246 Mar 20 12:38
joe-3.7,REV=2010.03.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

-rw-r--r--   1 phil     csw      1678650 Apr  7  2009
ncurses-5.7,REV=2009.04.06-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz


ncurses is bloated and unneccessary in most cases. Dont use unless required.