I think it would be good to make the database modular, and to stop requiring having everything in one binary blob. I don't see any downsides to Roy's suggestion.
Jaromir 2017-05-09 21:48 GMT+02:00 Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com>: > On 09.05.2017 16:50, Roy Marples wrote: >> On 09/05/2017 12:51, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> I don't have a preference, but I'm surprised that our single .cdb >>> approach is going to be hybrid with support for ncurses layout. >> >> Other ideas welcome on how to allow pkgsrc to integrate terminfo >> descriptions. >> >> Roy >> > > Are we far from just integrating these custom definitions present today > in pkgsrc into our base database? They aren't AGPLv3 or similar. Merging > existing ones and give an option to add a custom one into our base > terminfo database on demand (MESSAGE for a user) looks liek the best > option to me. I assume new definitions are rather rarely created. > > $TERMINFO could be supported as an alternative (backup, testing, ...) > .cdb database that could be specified in env(1). > > This is a point of view of a user / consumer of terminfo. >
