> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > If the ncurses guys are going to keep blowing off binary compatibility, > > then perhaps we should not mess with ncurses at all. > > I suspect, especially now that we've got the package load spread around > more, that Debian will be able to keep up.
I'm just concerned that this is a losing battle. It might be fine for static libraries, but for shared libraries to be effective they need to remain compatible from one version to the next. > Well, it's supposed to be faster, and, of course, BSD curses is no longer > supported. I don't think BSD curses really needs support. I wish it wasn't such a pain to support two curses implementations at once. (It's a nightmare) As for faster, it is somewhat, but it's also a lot buggier at the moment. > That doesn't necessarily excuse any of this mind you --- I've been on the > ncurses list for all of a day and a half and I'm already hearing about > 1.9.8 which apparently has some showstopper bugs that were reported but > not fixed in time for the release. I have several months of the ncurses list archived. If anyone is interested in having a copy of the archive, please let me know how to deliver it. :) > I suspect that the distributed packaging responsibility will make it > unlikely that it will get that bad --- one or two versions, maybe, tops. Hmm. I'll be happy if we can just get a stable version, I suppose. This is going to be a big problem for Linux binary compatibility between distributions. Jeff
