X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a8da274405cac2099f72aa10c85cdbaeaa9d28ed;hp=f38adef03296d07c7bcc9bd605a70cf541027f79;hb=952539d2f6aa5a3a29adc54488b0d3b66121c888;hpb=e6f4ffe150c7d919792f29a70b4f031cfab5ef06 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f38adef0..a8da2744 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2069 2013/06/08 21:00:03 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2096 2013/08/31 20:36:47 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,91 @@ 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. +20130831 + + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the + attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an + italics test. + + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide + character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7. + + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger). + +20130824 + + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings. + + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug + introduced by Debian #700177. + + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value + was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev). + +20130816 + + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor + addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or + generic_type. + + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm. + + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW + port when tic and other programs are not needed. + +20130805 + + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the + configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem + rpm macros. + + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building + cross-compile support packages. + + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles. + +20130727 + + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm: + + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options + + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw + dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../". + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC} + rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support. + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that + are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules. + + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed + + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses + the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229). + +20130720 + + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the + initialization of cur_term. + +20130713 + + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm. + + minor compiler-warning fixes + +20130706 + + add fallback defs for and (cf: 20120225). + + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of + wcwidth.h in MinGW port. + + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the + --enable-auto-import flag. + + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol + table issues. + +20130622 + + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended + capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790). + + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated. + + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example + of sgr. + + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages + + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi" + (patch by Eric Raymond). + +20130615 + + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable. + + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik): + + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined + tab-lists options. + + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d". + + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by + not printing the full pathname of the program. + + add -V option for consistency with other utilities. + + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option + such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik). + 20130608 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback @@ -201,7 +286,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20130209 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in - mingw environment. + MinGW environment. + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default value" for that part of the manpage substitution. @@ -4615,7 +4700,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP. + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by - Koblinger Egmont). + Egmont Koblinger). 20031004 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.