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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1839 2012/01/07 20:48:35 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1861 2012/02/18 23:11:09 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20120218
+ + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
+ the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
+ + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
+ mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
+ + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
+ broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
+ + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
+ + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
+ depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
+
+20120211
+ + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
+ + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
+ Linux versus most other systems.
+
+20120204
+ + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
+ better diagnostics.
+
+20120128
+ + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
+ + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
+ + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
+ + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
+ give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
+ consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
+ (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20120121
+ + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
+ of OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
+ port.
+ + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
+ path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
+ directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+
+20120114
+ + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
+ Linux Mint forum):
+ + modify movement commands to make them continuous
+ + rewrote the test for mvderwin
+ + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
+ + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
+ + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
+ and OpenBSD.
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+
20120107
- + various improvments for MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
+ drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ change recommended regular expression library.
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