On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 10:00:31AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 31-10-2016 20:41:17 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 08:27:00AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > Gentoo also ships libtinfow when wide char support (unicode) is enabled.
> > > I can't tell you much more than that, I'm affraid.
> > 
> > Thanks for your feedback.  tinfo is just low-level stuff, so it doesn't
> > seem like any of its functions would be different for ncursesw.
> 
> I figured the same last time I checked, but maybe the maintainers of
> ncurses at Gentoo did it just to be sure.

no: the Gentoo packager did this explicitly to simplify his packaging
scripts.  There is no difference between tinfo and tinfow.  Other
packagers chose to merge the two, because I made it configurable to
allow this.

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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