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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1151 2007/08/12 13:56:58 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.
+20071006
+ + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
+ changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
+ cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
+ memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070929
+ + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
+ calls within the ncurses library.
+ + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
+ the SCREEN.
+ + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
+ + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
+ it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
+20070915
+ + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
+ shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
+ + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
+ the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
+ + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
+
+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).