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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ncurses ???
Date: 17 Jun 1997 17:54:22 GMT
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"J.D.Coleman" <J.D.Coleman@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

> : We were about to, and then the goddamn war over the ownership of the
> : code started. Some of the authors are disputing the right of others to
> : make changes to the code, apparently.
> 
> So why not develop 4.4 curses further?

It lacks the entire keyboard handling machine, and the graphics
capabilities are fairly inferior.  It can't even draw a box with the
alternate characterset.

OTOH, ncurses IMHO suffers creeping featurism, and has been shooting
far beyond its goal to produce a SysV-curses lookalike.  The last
detail i stumpled across when debugging Mutt's resize problem was that
it installs a SIGWINCH handler -- something SysV never does.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j