Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I have loved Norton Commmander in the DOS world for > almost 20 years. When I came to Linux, I found MC almost right away and have > used it with success. However, each time that I have installed it, I have > had to run around setting up permissions in order to get it to work, or > search for the right version of ncurses, or some other makefile problems > that have kept things from building properly.
Well, the Midnight Commander in the past allowed you to compile it with about any version of ncurses you could find. The only problem was that with some older versions of ncurses the display would look wierd. The latest version 3.0 has switched away from ncurses to the S-Lang library (the one used by dosemu, the Jed editor, slrn, and other fine tools written by John Davis). We did that just because getting a bug free ncurses was difficult. Slang is included as part of the Midnight Commander distribution, compiling version 3.0 of the program should be much easier than with previous versions. > BTW, I was not aware that mc was a GNU product. I thought it was built by > Miguel at the University of Mexico. Version 3.0 is the first version officially released as part of the GNU project (although I have the strange impression that the announcement did never appear on gnu.announce, I wonder what happened). The Midnight Commander is actually maintained by 4 active programmers, so you get your bug fixed quick. We are currently fixing the reported bugs for version 3.0 and plan to release 3.1 soon and move on to finish our X versions of the program (a Tk version and an XView version are half working). Feel free to take a look at the latest version: ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/linux/local/devel/mc-3.0.19.tar.gz Cheers, Miguel.
