On Sunday 21 August 2005 05:05 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The terminfo method is provided by ncurses. It is considerably more > powerful and has far fewer arbitrary restrictions upon database entry > lengths. It is also less unmaintained than termcap.
actually it's actively maintained and the upstream author is a cool guy :) > * Make everything that isn't xterm set its own TERM value. Possibly the > same for things pretending to be rxvt, although this is less of an > issue since I think everything that pretends to be rxvt is "rxvt plus > some patches". actually, latest ncurses + gnome-terminal break because gnome-terminal sets TERM=xterm ... people proposed we revert some changes to ncurses but i denied that in favor of making gnome-terminal export TERM=gnome http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91055 i think the gnome team is just ignoring this though ;) > * Putty? Since I consider sshing from insecure systems irresponsible, I > don't know much about this one, other than that it's another dirty > liar and that said lying has caused various bugs in the past. Perhaps > someone could clarify with details of what it pretends to support and > what it really supports? there is a TERM=putty setting isnt there ? > Before I go any further with this, does anyone have a really really good > reason why we should continue to make lots of users suffer because a few > upstreams don't know what they're doing? sounds like a good proactive step to me -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
