On 04/06/2011 11:38 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:18 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini <tom_r...@mentor.com> wrote:
>>> The previous 5.7 release was relatively close to 5.8 due to it bringing
>>> in a patch to sync with upstream work-in-progress.  We skip over the
>>> 5.8 release and move to 5.9.
>>
>>
>> there already are patches for 5.9 available too
>> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/ncurses-5.9.patch.gz
> 
> Can someone summarise what the benefits of these patches are? I'm
> trying to figure out whether we lose anything due to this upgrade or
> not...

The patches we applied to 5.7 are part of the 5.8 release and 5.9 of
course replaces 5.8.  The invisible-island.net patch sets are things
taken from the official source repo and put out there for use.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation

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