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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.
+20140510
+ + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
+ + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
+ which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
+
+20140503
+ + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
+ + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
+ ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20140426
+ + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
+ simplify later merging:
+ + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
+ + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
+ + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
+ + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
+ the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
+ cf: 20090927).
+
+20140419
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20140412
+ + modify configure script:
+ + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
+ + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
+ with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
+ + improve initialization for MinGW port (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
+ + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
+ + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
+ + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
+ "#win32console", and
+ + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
+ to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
+
+20140329
+ + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
+ + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
+ with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
+ + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
+ get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
+ + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
+ 0.4.1 -TD
+
20140323
+ fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
recognized by clang.
20131116
- + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
+ correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
by Erwin Waterlander).
- + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
+ + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ correct coloring in test/bs.c
+ correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
20121017
- + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
+ + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
(Redhat #866989).
20121013
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ change recommended regular expression library.
+ modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
- + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
+ + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
20111231
+ modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
+ modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
- konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
+ konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
the new ones do not require this change. -TD
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