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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!feed1.news.erols.com!news.webspan.net!jupiter.future.net!not-for-mail From: tom@iic.net (Thomas T. Thai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:19:58 GMT Organization: Infomedia Interactive Communications Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33a52141.10078673@jupiter.future.net> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> Reply-To: tom@iic.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dial019.future.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6117 On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:25:33 +0200, Ruben van Staveren <ruben@luna.net> wrote: >Hi All, > >Just a question.. > >It seems more applications (NcFTP, Mutt) need ncurses instead of >just curses, and as the ncurses maintainer states that 4.4BSD curses >is discontinued, why does NetBSD not import ncurses ? it has a BSD >copying policy, or is there too much gpl'ed or SvR4 stuff in it >that would break the compatibility/philosophy in NetBSD ? There was a big discussion about this on the mailing list.. so you might want to grep the list archive and check.