Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > 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.
In that case it needs to be fetched out from the src's attic. The othersrc copy was re-imported, not repo-copied. (For the record, I'm still not convinced it makes much sense to try to bring it back.) -uwe
