X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=22821c568502b7d839fc63b481d355a3ef29bf8a;hp=5170eadd04f0b940ac862b5dd8c1dae7707b6ca0;hb=8c0ecb76c78517e32c606dadf87b5f31f24b78fe;hpb=fb24ca09eab8f14b9be7ea60acf174aae46df43d diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5170eadd..22821c56 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1456 2009/10/31 20:50:24 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1513 2010/03/13 20:30:34 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,171 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20100313 + + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will + install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim). + + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks + option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889). + + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from + compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of + ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer). + + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of + TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders + Kaseorg). + +20100306 + + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man + (suggested by Sven Joachim). + + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of + va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis). + +20100227 + + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by + Ada95/make-tar.sh + + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color + model does not clear with color for that feature -TD + +20100220 + + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with + making those separately distributable. + + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378). + + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo + Schwarze). + +20100213 + + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD + +20100206 + + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD + + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks. + + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed + to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar). + +20100130 + + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger). + + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages. + + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20100123 + + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is + initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work. + + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only + OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making + _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch + by Miroslav Lichvar) + + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + +20100116 + + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so + that line-drawing works. + + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs + such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string + capabilities can run. + + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference + declarations. + +20100109 + + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS + consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates. + + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options + before older in the list. + + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7. + + minor documentation cleanup. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009) + +20100102 + + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the + most common case of SGR 0. + + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on + each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more + events remain, it will return ERR. + +20091227 + + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data + first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo + "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by + 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are + ambiguous (Mandriva #56272). + +20091226 + + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD + + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD + + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style". + +20091219 + + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived + window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin + (report by Katarina Machalkova). + + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window. + + update minix terminfo entry -TD + + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler) + +20091212 + + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow + field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to + filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls. + + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta) + + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character + nulls. + + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on + failure. + + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and + tset.c per + ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change + (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by + Nicholas Marriott). + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + +20091205 + + correct layout of working window used to extract data in + wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael + Garrido Fernandez) + + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and + writing terminfo entries. + + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read + a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch + by Nicholas Marriott). + +20091128 + + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver + is enabled. + + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is + enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon + this. + +20091121 + + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this + requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen + rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson). + + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links + + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT. + +20091114 + + + updated man/curs_trace.3x + + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). + + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which + value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + +20091107 + + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute- + and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen. + + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form + library which help make it compatible with interop applications + (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes + for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer + 20091031 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character