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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.
+20200229
+ + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
+ which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
+ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
+ "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
+ length array feature.
+ + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
+ because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+
+20200222
+ + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
+ building out-of-tree.
+ + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
+ include all of the required headers for the types used.
+
+20200215
+ + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
+ section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
+ FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
+ + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
+
20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
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