X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8de737131940156ce7b6a5117218b25d3914d1e0;hp=f78544e1f24fbd793384763dd7923ae5514ce949;hb=5b7f4de105080e2a715b0564ede4bb7eb6767659;hpb=c13e57306ae5c4431fddd0fe856c3bcae6aeeb2c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f78544e1..8de73713 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 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 1.1143 2007/07/14 23:19:06 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1400 2009/07/04 22:12:46 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,802 @@ 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. +20090704 + + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch). + + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on + unctrl(). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090627 + + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs. + + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure + option. + + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when + integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to + MinGW. + +20090613 + + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to + make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix"). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090607 + + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges. + +20090606 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090530 + + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value + using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch). + + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090523 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090516 + + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus + SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411). + + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing + its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian + #528374). + +20090510 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090502 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ). + +20090425 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090419 + + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by + Christian Ebert). + +20090418 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090411 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does + part of the form library. + +20090404 + + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on + Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe). + +20090328 + + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving + function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD + + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report + by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo). + + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color. + + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating + a temporary variable. + + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses + library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William + Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool). + + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion + with Charles Wilson). + + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure. + + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure + > patches by Charles Wilson: + + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool + version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as + digits, after the final '.'). + + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an + intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then + using that in the libtool link-commands. + + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk + from 2009031 changes. + + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the + LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib, + termlib) is to be linked. + + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just + enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix. + +20090321 + + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to + build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson). + + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX + (report by Charles Wilson). + + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list + the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson). + + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix + for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than + "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson). + +20090314 + + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add + dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson). + + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors + such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles + Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing + list). + + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on + Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and + does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries + (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae). + + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script. + + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works. + + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with + changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson). + +20090228 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but + enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson). + +20090221 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090214 + + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of + extended functions. + + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer: + + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several + curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete; + some internals work is needed to complete these). + + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port. + +20090207 + + update several configure macros from lynx changes + + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS + + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR + + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + make it work with $DESTDIR + + create the pkg-config library directory if needed. + +20090124 + + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond + the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele + Giaquinta). + + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule. + + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and + gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161). + +20090117 + + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for + *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's + dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey). + + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn + character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is + done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped + multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row + (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc + http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930). + +20090110 + + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD + + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib + directory. + + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in + adacurses-config + + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors + such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849). + +20090105 + + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting + prefix variable. + + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the + --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the + subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix + (report by Frederic L W Meunier). + +20090104 + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when + deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown + for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into + account. + + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk, + used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack). + +20090103 + + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for + CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen). + + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along + with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files + for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt). + + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir + option. + + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a + configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar" + options. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + +20081227 + + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library. + + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc + on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan). + +20081220 + + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when + --disable-ext-funcs is used. + + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without + wrapping. + + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines. + + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines. + +20081213 + + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6 + (GenToo #245370). + + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed + the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man + + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from + GenToo #250454). + + fixes from NetBSD port at + http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches + patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly) + patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config). + + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH + by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the + search-lists. + + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot, + OpenBSD documentation/6019), + +20081206 + + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to + work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc. + + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character + set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran). + + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather + than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that + ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue + was xterm's alternate screen feature). + + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a + zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717, + adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault). + +20081129 + + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control + character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to + obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not + passing color or video attributes. + + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to + display meta-characters. + + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h + + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD + + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only + displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by + Ricardo Cantu). + +20081122 + + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and + Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report + by Mike Dennison). + + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program. + +20081115 + + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI + clear-all-tabs -TD + + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260). + + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger). + +20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20081025 + + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks. + + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which + does not work well on that platform). + + build-fix for QNX C++ binding. + +20081018 + + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX. + + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline + in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by + Nit Khair). + + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when + --disable-database is used. + + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files + to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly + (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk). + + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of + CF_LIBUTF8. + +20081012 + + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename + original to teraterm2.3 -TD + + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD + + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD + + add "aterm" terminfo -TD + + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD + + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities, + overlooked til now. + +20081011 + + update html documentation. + + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test + the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively. + + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null. + + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO. + + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c + + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether + tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from + 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421). + +20081004 + + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but + works for C/C++ parts). + + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g. + AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's. + +20080927 + + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of + strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h + + fix build for --disable-sigwinch + + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use + GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc. + + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain + "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals + that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm. + + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code. + + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112). + + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to + slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization. + +20080925 + + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in + Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar). + +20080920 + + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries. + + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM. + + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat + newsgroup by FurtiveBertie). + + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind, + misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas) + +20080913 + + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work. + + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7 + +20080907 + + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W + Meunier). + +20080906 + + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64. + + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings, + use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option. + + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W + Meunier). + + update test/configure script. + + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc() + is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20. + + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in + test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available, + fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00 + +20080830 + + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work. + + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the + C-version. + + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott + Mccreary). + + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr + and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64. + + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c + + filter #line's from lib_gen.c + + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid + substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems). + +20080823 + + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1, + which uses #define's to associate its header and library. + + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t, + makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23 + + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804). + + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and + possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew + library (patch by Dr Werner Fink). + + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for + the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran). + + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by + Debian #495815) -TD + +20080816 + + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature. + + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols. + + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that + applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes, + etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr + Werner Fink). + + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library + using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink). + + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted + by comments by Samuel Thibault). + + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report. + +20080804 + + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak. + + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus + + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou). + + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for + "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes. + + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the + search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre). + +20080726 + + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining + thresholds). + +20080713 + + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang). + +20080712 + + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris. + +20080705 + + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to + make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration + (cf: 20050205). + + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL. + + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the + -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to + not link. + +20080628 + + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration. + + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap + interface. + + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted + by comment on FreeBSD mailing list). + + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD + + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD + +20080621 + + regenerated html documentation. + + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and + menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg). + + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and + def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode() + + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs. + +20080614 + + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen(). + + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris. + + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report + by Poor Yorick). + +20080607 + + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the + window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That + allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with + some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a + window which is being used in a wgetch(). + + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's. + +20080531 + + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window + parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still + use SP internally. + + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter. + + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a + particular SCREEN rather than the global SP. + + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a + particular SCREEN rather than the global SP. + + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate + its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN. + + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in + preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer. + +20080524 + + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the + screen which must be updated. + + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and + always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm(). + + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch + Miroslav Lichvar) + +20080517 + + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and + --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from + the ncurses ABI 5. + + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with + Emanuele Giaquinta). + + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line + (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20080503 + + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix + overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD + + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the + global SP. + + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and + each_ripoff(). + +20080426 + + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate + multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens. + + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran). + +20080419 + + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD + + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from + being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings. + + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout. + +20080412 + + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm. + + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their + window parameters. + + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN + pointer. + + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage. + +20080405 + + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data + used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis. + + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by + discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on + python-dev2 mailing list). + +20080329 + + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen(). + + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which + are not associated with a particular screen. + + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than + stdscr to the callback function. + + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this, + e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc + (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner). + + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on + platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for + the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner). + + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX + thread library. + +20080322 + + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and + waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch). + + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work + for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R + Sedeno). + + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo + wide-characters with extended-colors. + + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests. + + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen(). + + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads. + +20080308 + + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo. + + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/ toggles + that the 'F' accepts. + + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads + are working concurrently. + + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and + window. + +20080301 + + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use + recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from + _nc_free_and_exit(). + +20080223 + + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex + lock/unlock when termlib was built separately. + +20080216 + + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often + is implemented to suspend the entire process. + +20080209 + + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for + comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses + that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded + implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228). + +20080203 + + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same + for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model, + but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model. + + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by + using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append + further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A + Chernov). + + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint(). + If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~" + sequence. + +20080126 + + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE + handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep() + or poll() or select() are used on Linux. + +20080119 + + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs + + add manpage for use_window and use_screen. + + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions. + +20080112 + + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c + + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's + adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when + softkeys were used. + +20080105 + + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the + "link_test" builds properly. + + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given. + + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728 + (report by Miroslav Lichvar) + + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the + soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova) + + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be + cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors + question). + + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE. + +20071222 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for delwin(). + +20071215 + + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that + pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee). + +20071201 + + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the + INSTALL file. + + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries. + + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no + applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124). + +20071124 + + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which + is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by + pierre4d2 comments). + + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is + used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed + by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung). + + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report + by Chris Lee). + +20071117 + + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to + generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the + filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov). + + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the + configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case + filenames. + + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee). + + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make + it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are + declared. + +20071103 + + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c + + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler). + +20071020 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for use_window(). + + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified + cursor keys -TD + + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by + Rong-En Fan). + +20071013 + + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built + without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on + that library. + + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or + the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger). + + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla + #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar). + + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for + the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD + +20071006 + + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which + changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing + cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked + memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070929 + + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef() + calls within the ncurses library. + + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into + the SCREEN. + + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete). + + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make + it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer). +20070915 + + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building + shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support. + + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for + the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated. + + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example. + +20070908 + + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support + for threaded library (incomplete). + + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from + creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by + Rong-En Fan). + +20070901 + + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links + for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4. + + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete). + + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const + + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage + to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion. + + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure + options (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070825 + + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function + (cf: 971004). + + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings" + option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20070818 + + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD + + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null + "\0" followed by a digit. + + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings. + This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where + the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions. + + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection + which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file + which was introduced to fix "make -j". + + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c + + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it + when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ). + +20070812 + + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit + unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017). + + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings. + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE. + + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via + _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + +20070728 + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c + + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c + + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether + unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may + use strings longer than supported by a given compiler. + + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of + internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols. + + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c + +20070721 + + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315). + + add test/test_get_wstr.c + + add test/test_getstr.c + + add test/test_inwstr.c + + add test/test_instr.c + +20070716 + + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which + is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm() + (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm, + cf: 20070310). + 20070714 + add test/savescreen.c test-program + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add @@ -87,7 +883,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20070609 + add test/key_name.c - + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c + + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c + update test/configure + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar(). + null-terminate result of wunctrl(). @@ -99,7 +895,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (discussion with Clive Nicolson). + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to illustrate how to use mvcur(). - + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the + + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo). @@ -169,7 +965,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20070407 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x - + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup). @@ -308,7 +1104,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov). 20070210 - + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by