Hi,
On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Hello everyone,
I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which
explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminfo(5)
Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses:
"Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination."
Which I do not find really useful.
I would like to make the move from termcap to terminfo which would give us the
bonus to be able to track terminfo sources from upstream aka ncurses and to
add and use tic(1).
That's great! I've been bitten by termcap not being well understood by
the open source community many times. I am supporting the move to
terminfo wholeheartedly.
If you have some knowledge you want to share: "be careful about this or that" I
would be more than happy to collect it, to make sure the transition is as smooth
as possible.
What comes to my mind is that we should probably pay special attention
to terminal ports, like x11/sterm. We might need to tell those ports to
install their terminfo files. I don't remember the details though.
Cheers,
Mateusz
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