Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:35 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) > which > > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of > terminfo(5) > > Except an

Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello everyone, > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5) > Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: > "Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination." >

Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which > > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of

Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
Hi, On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hello everyone, I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5) Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: "Used instead of the

Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Just my one cent. Baptiste Daroussin wrote in <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45p...@ivaldir.net>: |I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which |explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminf\ |o(5) ... |I would like to make the move from

Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5)

2020-05-07 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
Hello everyone, I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5) Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: "Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination." Which I do not