Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-21 Thread Tom Hughes
On 04/08/15 11:33, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: The ncurses upstream has released a first 6.0 version few months ago. The default ABI version has changed to 6, which enables some extensions to allow more colors, mouse wheel, etc. The ABI version 5 is still supported and can be selected with a

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-21 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:18:15PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: According to http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ the new ABI should include symbol versioning, which would hopefully avoid the need for a repeat of this pain in the future, but as far as I can see none of the symbols in the current

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:18:51PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:18:15PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: According to http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ the new ABI should include symbol versioning, which would hopefully avoid the need for a repeat of this pain in the

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-19 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:38:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: guestfish uses APIs from readline and libtinfo directly. It does not use ncurses APIs directly. So it is overlinked, but IIRC that's because you had to use `-lreadline -lncurses' to make readline work properly on some old

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:35:00PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:33:42PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: As for updating the ncurses package, my current plan is to build the libs in both ABIs (so there are four builds total with the wide and narrow versions), use

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-13 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:33:42PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: As for updating the ncurses package, my current plan is to build the libs in both ABIs (so there are four builds total with the wide and narrow versions), use the ncurses-libs subpackage for the new ABI 6 libs and create a new

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-10 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:34:56PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: On Aug 5, 2015 2:55 AM, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:09:34AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Are you looking to do this for F23 branch and rawhide or just rawhide and have it land in

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-05 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:09:34AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 4 August 2015 at 04:33, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: As for updating the ncurses package, my current plan is to build the libs in both ABIs (so there are four builds total with the wide and narrow

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Aug 5, 2015 2:55 AM, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:09:34AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 4 August 2015 at 04:33, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: As for updating the ncurses package, my current plan is to build the libs in

ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-04 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
The ncurses upstream has released a first 6.0 version few months ago. The default ABI version has changed to 6, which enables some extensions to allow more colors, mouse wheel, etc. The ABI version 5 is still supported and can be selected with a configure option. We should switch to the new ABI,

Re: ncurses update to 6.0

2015-08-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 4 August 2015 at 04:33, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: The ncurses upstream has released a first 6.0 version few months ago. The default ABI version has changed to 6, which enables some extensions to allow more colors, mouse wheel, etc. The ABI version 5 is still supported and