The terminfo0 packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. This package, which can be installed alongside the regular 'terminfo' ones, provides that database using the organizational structure expected by libncurses8 and earlier (newer ncurses applications, using libncurses9 and newer, use a different structure on cygwin, correcting issues with case- sensitivity).
The current terminfo, in order to improve operation on case-insensitive platforms, is now organized according to the two-digit hexadecimal code of the entry's first letter, instead of organized according to that first letter itself. For instance: OLD (terminfo0) ---> CURRENT (terminfo) r/rxvt-unicode 72/rxvt-unicode Each database is actually provided in two parts. The terminfo0 package provides most of the terminal definitions commonly used on the cygwin platform, and a selection of others. The terminfo0-extra package provides all of the others (again, arranged using the "old" libncurses8-compatible organization). In addition, because (a) the libncurses8-based tic0 tool must be used to generate the old-style database, and (b) that old tic0 tool cannot support some constructs in the new 5.7_20091114 terminfo.src file, the terminfo0 database is "stuck" at an old version (5.5_20061104) of the terminfo.src, and as such may contain bugs in the terminal definitions it supplies. The fix for client applications is to recompile against libncurses9 and thus use the current terminfo packages, rather than continuing to rely on this old and possibly broken terminfo0 package. CHANGES (since 5.5_20061104-2) ======================== o Routine refresh (no actual substantive changes here; released only to keep release update timing in sync with 1.7 and with 1.5 'current' terminfo. -- Charles Wilson terminfo volunteer maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
