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--- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.48 2006/10/28 19:49:16 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.51 2008/10/11 19:22:27 tom Exp $
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SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:
+ The window classes defined in the c++ subdirectory need documentation. Some
C++ programmer could earn a lot of good karma by doing this...
-+ The resizeterm() function does not handle ripped-off lines such as that done
- for the slk_XXX functions.
-
+ vid_attr() should support the set_a_attributes (sgr1) string, but does not.
There appear to be no terminals that require that functionality.
++ the configure --disable-ext-funcs option does not work for Ada95 tree.
+
++ the --with-pthread configuration builds for Cygwin, but does not work
+ properly (test/worm.c shows all of the worms in the same location).
+
++ the --enable-rpath configure option builds for the corresponding platforms;
+ however combining it with --with-ticlib and --with-termlib does not always
+ produce libraries that can be run without setting environment variables.
+ Building those with libtool does not work either. (This is a problem with
+ the BSD platforms).
+
Portability (or lack thereof):
+ Users of older System V UNIXes (but not Solaris, and probably not SVr4) may
ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
+ In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h
- interface for handling variadic argument lists. Linux doesn't have
- varargs.h, it has the newer X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these
- functions use stdargs instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless
- you're building ncurses on a System V old enough to only have varargs.h.
- (Solaris 2.5.1 uses the stdarg.h binding as well).
+ interface for handling variadic argument lists (and are deprecated by X/Open
+ for that reason). Linux doesn't have varargs.h, it has the newer
+ X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these functions use stdargs
+ instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building ncurses on
+ a System V old enough to only have varargs.h. (Solaris 2.5.1 used the
+ stdarg.h binding as well).
+ If you're using a BSD earlier than 4.4BSD, or a Linux old enough not to have
a native vsscanf(3) in its library, vwscanw() will not work. You lose. (It
should work on any System V, however). If you want to fix this, add an
implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c.
-+ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers, mainly with
- configure script problems with vsscanf().
++ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers.
+ terminfo.5 does not format with the SunOS (and most other platform's) tbl
utility because it relies on a diversion for each table entry. Get the
1. Extended COSE conformance
-There is an XPG4 standard recently released which describes a superset
+There is an XPG4 standard released in 1996 which describes a superset
of the SVr4 API. The library is BASE conformant with this standard.
We would like to make ncurses fully conformant at the EXTENDED level
supporting internationalization.
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