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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!smartdna!not-for-mail From: mparson@roloc.bl.org (Michael Parson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 16 Jun 1997 14:38:18 -0500 Organization: Bastards, Limited Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5o44na$f07$1@roloc.bl.org> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: roloc.bl.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6124 In article <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net>, 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 ? I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that the 'hard-core' BSD developers want to distribute as little GPL software was possible with the OS. The ncurses package is a much needed piece though... It does compile easily enough. -- Michael Parson Mail sent to this posting host will not make it to me, to reply, send to just the domain.