X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=43259f65f4ae584efbcf61a33712cc0e3d318458;hp=0905f9eb6f014d8224b001f4fc0ad7046f26ca6a;hb=5242fccf157e715ed878455a3efea6c82b840eb5;hpb=6f8ad7d77b390ee433a283e1c5175bcb67317674 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0905f9eb..43259f65 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1058 2006/12/24 00:50:10 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1079 2007/02/04 00:30:41 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,7 +45,74 @@ 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. -20061223 +20070203 + + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color) + from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. + Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the + associated color overrides the field's background color (report by + Ricardo Cantu). + + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc. + + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted. + + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints + to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built. + + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding + no longer relies on it. + + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and + --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan). + + remove tack from ncurses tree. + +20070128 + + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option + (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070127 + + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed + to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan). + + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after + it is removed from the ncurses tree. + + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making + its license consistent with ncurses. + + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in + the c++ binding for scanw() methods. + + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding. + +20070120 + + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from + term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency. + + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines. + + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + +20070113 + + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the + _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak). + + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the + ncurses build-tree. + + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions + in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070106 + + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o + + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o + (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20061230 + + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is + defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only) + + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c, + lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c + + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program + names, e.g., from --program-prefix. + + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes + to manpages as needed. + + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine). + + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory. + +20061223 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given. + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs" @@ -54,7 +121,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org -20061217 +20061217 + add ifdef's for for HPUX, which has the corresponding definitions in . + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither @@ -3456,7 +3523,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000923 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor - save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. + save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson (see NetBSD misc/11052)). + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in