On Wednesday 25 May 2005 17:36, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > Well, I was going to have to bring this issue up at some point, and > so it might as well be now. > > Up throughout its lifetime, epic has never had any "mandatory > dependancies", which just means another piece of software that > absolutely must be installed before epic will build. EPIC has many > "optional dependancies" (perl, tcl, socks, ssl, and so on), but > you're not required to take them. > > But now I am at a place where it seems to really move forward with > the interface, it is necessary to make epic a curses program, > particularly to use libpanel[1]. This makes a dependance on sysv > curses (ncurses) a mandatory dependance. This is a big step. > > How do you all feel about making curses a mandatory dependancy for > epic5? System V Curses (ncurses) is a very widely deployed, but not > necessarily universally available thing. > > Jeremy > > [1] libpanel is a library wrapper on top of sysv curses that > implements a 3-dimensional multiple document interface (mdi). >
Are you going to continue support for EPIC4 for those that don't want and/or need a curses interface? What sort of upgrade path would users have from EPIC5 -> EPIC5 w/ curses? Reinstall or some other magic glue? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
