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Avail for test: ncurses-5.4-1, libncurses8-5.4-1, libncurses-devel-5.4-1, ncurses-test-5.4-1


ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap.

This is a test release, so use the "Exp:" radio button on setup. Also, wait a few hours before downloading ncurses-demo. There was a packaging bug and I slipstreamed a correction, so it needs to propagate to the mirrors. (but the other binary packages are fine on the mirrors, now).

CHANGES

* updated to 5.4 release, patchlevel 20041009

* moved test programs in the -demo package from /usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll to /usr/lib/ncurses/test/, per official policy.

* build using libtool (these contributions were spearheaded by Nicholas Wourms over a year ago; Thanks, Nick!) For an explanation of the delay, see the NOTES section, below.

* DLL for C++ interface now provided (again).

* version number bump on the libraries:
    We had: libncurses7 package contained
       /usr/bin/cygncurses7.dll
       /usr/bin/cygpanel7.dll
       /usr/bin/cygmenu7.dll
       /usr/bin/cygform7.dll
       <no c++ dll>
    New package libncurses8 contains
       /usr/bin/cygncurses-8.dll
       /usr/bin/cygpanel-8.dll
       /usr/bin/cygmenu-8.dll
       /usr/bin/cygform-8.dll
       /usr/bin/cygncurses++-8.dll

There is actually NO ABI change here. The only reason the dll numbers (and package name) was version-bumped was because the switch to using libtool means that the DLLs are named
"cygfoo-N.dll" instead of "cygfooN.dll"
Even if I left "N" the same, what would I call the new package? libncurses_7 (since libncurses7 alread contains the non-libtool-built versions of the DLLs, from the 5.3-4 release)?


I figured it was cleaner just to bump the DLL and package numbers from 7 to 8, so that at least the package names would be consistent:
libncurses7
libncurses8


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NOTES:

* In the 5.3-4 release (patchlevel 20040726), a lot of support for building shared libs using libtool was added ( !!!! THANK YOU Nicholas Wourms !!!! ). Unfortunately, I was not able to actually RELEASE the libtool-built ncurses at that time, for the reasons detailed below:

   1) Requires Yet Another DLL rename.  cygncurses7.dll -->
      cygncurses-5.dll (or some other number; the ncurses maintainer
      does not use the same variable to set DLL versions when
      building non-libtool and when building libtool).  But simply
      the '-' is problematic, even if I make both numerals '7'.
      Libtool insists on the '-'.  So, I figured I'd spare
      everybody another version split -- especially as so many
      packages which depend on ncurses have just been rebuilt
      against 5.3-4/1.5.3+; to bump the version again so soon
      would require all of those to be rebuilt, which is really
      unnecessary at this time.

      <UPDATE>: bit the bullet, and reved the DLL number to "8". It's
      been a year, after all.

   2) The libtool wrapper I released recently (with the
      "WANT_LIBTOOL_VER" environment variable) are *almost* right.
      But not quite.  So, I need to release another set of wrappers
      before using them to build one of my maintained packages.

      <UPDATE>: Actually, I forgot about this issue; these wrappers are
      STILL not right, but I finessed it this time.

   3) libtool itself has a bug with multilanguage support and
      relinking.  The '--tag=<language>' is required...but libtool
      doesn't store the tag info in the uninstalled .la file.  So,
      when installing, libtool tries to relink the shared library,
      but without the --tag=CXX flag.  This, of course, fails.
      I've reported this to the libtool developers, and provided
      a simpler testcase, but no joy yet.

      <UPDATE>: The preceeding was written in July 2003.  Presently,
      ncurses + libtool-1.5.10 works fine.



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