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Re: NCurses-5.0
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: NCurses-5.0
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:57:56 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-apps at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000518185546.12950.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com>
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:55:46AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> This should probably go into latest. I don't suppose you want to be
>> the ncurses maintainer?
>
>I was hoping for that. Charles Wilson is already distributing ncurses and
>since he's already moving things in to maintain would probably be the one to
>maintain it. I received a personal note from him, thanking me for the install
>fix. I think he also has it building as a dll.
Ok. Great. I appreciate your doing "due diligence" on this.
>One of the things I meant to mention was that the testscanw doesn't work at
>all. It doesn't matter what the TERM setting is.
Hmm. Maybe Charles will have some insight into this. I know that
Cygwin's console handling code is not great and probably deserves to be
rewritten.
cgf