ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200301

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
+-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.214 2019/09/07 22:44:40 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.217 2020/02/15 13:39:30 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -492,7 +493,7 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 
     --disable-wattr-macros
        The 6.0 ABI adds support for extended colors and for extended mouse.
-       The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertantly
+       The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertently
        compile using the ncurses6 header files and link with an ncurses5
        library, because the wattr* macros use a new field in the WINDOW
        structure.  These macros are used in several applications.
@@ -1342,6 +1343,43 @@ COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS OF NCURSES:
     you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
     ncurses:
 
+    6.2 (Feb 12, 2020)
+       Interface changes:
+
+       + the terminal database must be compiled with ncurses 6.2 tic;
+         older versions of tic/infocmp will not work.  Aside from that,
+         the compiled database will work with older applications.
+
+       + "*.pc" and "ncurses*-config" files give the same information.
+
+       + vwprintw and vwscanw are deprecated.
+
+       Added extensions:
+
+       + These make it simpler to substitute a debug-configuration of the
+         library for non-debug:
+               curses_trace
+               exit_curses
+               exit_terminfo
+
+       Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+       + These provide fast-lookup of common user-defined capabilities:
+               _nc_find_user_entry
+               _nc_get_userdefs_table
+               _nc_get_hash_user
+
+       + This is added to work around compiler-warnings:
+               _nc_fmt_funcptr
+
+       Removed internal functions:
+
+       + _nc_import_termtype
+
+       Modified internal functions:
+
+       + _nc_reserve_pairs no longer returns a value
+
     6.1 (Jan 27, 2018)
        Interface changes:
 
@@ -2158,7 +2196,7 @@ CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES:
                        >fallback.c
 
        The overhead for an empty fallback list is one trivial stub function.
-       Any non-empty fallback list is const-ed and therefore lives in sharable
+       Any non-empty fallback list is const'd and therefore lives in shareable
        text space.  You can look at the comment trailing each initializer in
        the generated ncurses/fallback.c file to see the core cost of the
        fallbacks.  A good rule of thumb for modern vt100-like entries is that