X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f9c3db4985e64ff240bf8e7b4ec48d887b9166d3;hb=aabbbcb7892fd946828a4170378b13b9d12435c6;hp=1d991da74cb9dc33001ddf564f87ac4cb2c35f3a;hpb=03a795bde58b3280a4e9d80029a3b7fec13c79ad;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1d991da7..f9c3db49 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1148 2007/07/28 22:19:17 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1166 2007/09/08 21:55:19 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,56 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20070908 + + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support + for threaded library (incomplete). + + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from + creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by + Rong-En Fan). + +20070901 + + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links + for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4. + + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete). + + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const + + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage + to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion. + + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure + options (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070825 + + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function + (cf: 971004). + + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings" + option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20070818 + + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD + + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null + "\0" followed by a digit. + + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings. + This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where + the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions. + + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection + which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file + which was introduced to fix "make -j". + + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c + + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it + when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ). + +20070812 + + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit + unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017). + + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings. + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE. + + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via + _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + 20070728 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c