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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1574 2010/07/31 23:42:36 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.
+20101009
+ + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
+ entry (Novell #644831) -TD
+ + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
+ gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
+ + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
+ external package "cindent".
+
+20101002
+ + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
+ pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
+ + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
+ inconsistent printer-controls.
+ + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
+ form is available -TD
+ + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
+ ANSI -TD
+ + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
+ Sven Joachim).
+ + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+ + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+ + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
+ distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
+ in mingw_arch
+
+20100925
+ + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
+ xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
+ special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
+ README.MinGW).
+ + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+
+20100918
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+ + add manpage for sp-funcs.
+ + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+
+20100911
+ + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
+ and form-libraries.
+ + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
+ (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+ + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
+ platforms.
+
+20100904
+ + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
+ programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20100828
+ + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
+ + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
+ message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
+ description (prompted by Debian #593920).
+ + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
+ descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
+ + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
+ Sittler).
+
+20100814
+ + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
+ the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
+ (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
+ + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
+ by Tim van der Molen).
+ + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
+ tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
+ library configuration.
+ + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
+ directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
+ + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
+
+20100807
+ + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
+ (cf: 20100724)
+ + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
+ used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
+ e.g., for cross-compiling.
+ + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
+ + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
+
20100731
+ modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
+ move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
+ add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
- terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat
+ terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
be enabled.