Hi, > St has been updating the terminfo on installation on its own. The recom‐ > mended way to install suckless software always has been to compile it > from source. So there is no real reason to care for the current terminfo > definiton to be in the ncurses terminfo database. It would be nice, but > it isn’t a must.
I always install st from sources (of course ;)), but the problem is that sometimes I have to connect to remote machines where I do not have root rigths, or even (in some non usual cases) I do not have home directory. There is also the case of OpenBSD, where you cannot install an overriden definition of a terminal present in the terminfo database. So, it is not a must, but it is very convenient. > For the stable release: Yes, it’s time. The utf decoder seems to be sta‐ > ble enough and there aren’t any more pending definition complaints for > the key array. Are there any patches still pending? If not, I will make > a new st release. I have some things pending, but they are far of being stables for commiting, so for me it is ok. I think we can freeze a version and keep it a few months before of creating the stable version. I don't want find some bugs like the segmentation fault of 672e4e4 after creating the stable version. Regards, -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
