On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 01:28:56PM -0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > 1. Is there a way to have a "compatibility mode"? Or is that too complicated > or unwanted?
I could make a compile time option to switch back to the old behaviour. I just tried it and curses seems to work, I don't think the screen initialisation is quite as optimal but it gets there in the end. Of course, the automated testing blows up because the output is different. > 2. Bumping the library version is probably not necessary because there > is no ABI change, but I can see that perhaps changing how the programs > look when the library is updated is unexpected and perhaps there is > a benefit doing so. Yes, this seems to be the consensus. I think kre@ suggested a minor version bump which probably is a good thing to do and doesn't have the same impact as a major bump. > 3. I noticed that there is no version number in <curses.h>. Perhaps programs > could use that to check the version and alter their behavior with respect > to colors if it existed? > Yes, this has been suggested before. I personally don't particularly like the idea as I am not sure what use it would be especially given that NetBSD libcurses is a fairly niche offering in a sea of ncurses I cannot see it getting much, if any, use. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
