Has any thought been given to replacing Solaris curses with ncurses? I believe that ncurses claims to be completely compatible with System V curses, and given that it's actually kept up-to-date, and is generally more featureful than Solaris curses, it would likely be a good move.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:59:47AM -0700, Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote: > /usr/lib/libgcurses.so > /usr/lib/libgform.so.5 > /usr/lib/libgmenu.so.5 > /usr/lib/libgncurses.so.5 > /usr/lib/libgpanel.so.5 > Volatile Supporting libraries > These are files with a > 'g' prefix Are any of these names used by anyone, anywhere? Is there any value in shipping them? You are, however, missing the most important one -- /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -- which is what everyone is going to expect. > /usr/gnu/lib/libcurses.so > /usr/gnu/lib/libform.so.5 > /usr/gnu/lib/libmenu.so.5 > /usr/gnu/lib/libncurses.so.5 It's not clear this one is useful if it's shipped in /usr/lib. > /usr/gnu/lib/libpanel.so.5 > Volatile Supporting libraries > These are links to > libraries > in /usr/lib/ with a 'g' > prefix You didn't mention the terminfo database that comes with ncurses. I assume that you're not shipping it? Why are the wide-character versions of the libraries missing? Thanks, Danek
