Hello Bruce, On Sun, 2020-02-02 at 10:50 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > The latest version of xterm has this in the NEWS file: > > * modify run-tic.sh to prefer development version of ncurses since > changes to terminfo file in patch #345 rely upon bug-fixes in > ncurses > > I do not think that it is good form to create a 'stable' release > that > relies on a development library. > > Testing, the 'make install-ti' command just runs run-tic.sh and that > checks for a development version of ncurses and fails. > > I can hack run-tic.sh to make it use the current ncurses, but that > will > continue the problem from xterm-345 and later. > > I've looked at updating ncurses, but the patches methodology of > ncurses > seems awkward. There seems to be a large number (currently 103) of > weekly patch.gz files that appear to be designed to be applied > sequentially. Some of the patches are quite large and uncompressed > total > to about 21 MB. > > I only use xterm for testing Xorg and I do not know if many others > use > it on a regular basis. > > I'm inclined to just leaving xterm at the current 352 version until > a > stable ncurses-6.2 is released. > > Opinions?
Agreed 100% with you. Development != stable. Distribution/aggregation should rely on "pure" upstream tar file. Patching is (an unwelcome but sometime needed) packager privilege. > > -- Bruce > > > -- You have seen "Linux from scratch" and looking for ISO files www.osukiss.org -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
