X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ac58ef9edbc96127c9aab31739f391758259a909;hp=a64450b30228d34e05096529a02bb33efa927c5e;hb=95a30fbbfc81d5eb0a76e139c86e0a6505cad871;hpb=e70a86c3d48b8cbad0f6d1c33ba5b027a243834e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a64450b3..ac58ef9e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 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 1.1320 2008/11/02 00:56:22 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1360 2009/01/24 23:06:51 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,133 @@ 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. +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