Re: recent terminfo changes

2020-03-26 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Christos Zoulas wrote: >In article <20200324144303.e147610...@quasar.astron.com>, >Christos Zoulas wrote: Finally here is a complete patch that deletes terminfo2.cdb. This patch restores compatibility with the old terminfo format for most entries except the handful ones that need th

Re: recent terminfo changes

2020-03-26 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20200324144303.e147610...@quasar.astron.com>, Christos Zoulas wrote: >Hello, > >The recent terminfo ABI change to widen numeric constants from 16 bits to >32 bits was done in the following way: > >1. Create a new terminfo2 database and rely on the fact that old > programs will use th