In article <rmtmjs$kck$1...@ciao.gmane.io>, Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote: >Alistair Crooks <a...@pkgsrc.org> wrote: > >> If it comes back, it needs to be modified to use curses - the hardcoded >> terminal escapes for a bunch of 1970s terminals is kinda cute in a retro >> way; it's also kinda embarassing. > >From a very quick look half of window sources (tt* and ww* files) are >its homebrew curses replacement. If we are going to throw that out >and switch to curses I'd expect quite a bit of initial rototill and >instability (and don't forget whatever bugs that are hiding in our >curses :) Doing that work when it's already re-imported to src and >enabled would be quite a bit of churn. Can that be done outside of >src first, in othersrc or whereever?
There is the benefit keeping the whole history though if we import it as is and then work on a branch. christos
