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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1896 2012/04/21 20:09:09 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1962 2012/10/06 19:48:38 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20121006
+ + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
+ --version message.
+ + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
+ + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
+ has used that for a while.
+ + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
+ for experimental use.
+ + remove unused configure macros.
+ + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
+ for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
+ + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20120922
+ + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
+ for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+ + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
+ use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
+ "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+ + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
+ older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
+
+20120908
+ + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
+ to help with MinGW port.
+
+20120903
+ + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
+ there.
+ + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
+
+20120902
+ + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
+
+20120901
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
+ + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
+ might not be allocated.
+ + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
+
+20120826
+ + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
+ initial screen-sizes.
+ + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
+ after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
+ Roumen Petrov).
+
+20120825
+ + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
+ rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
+ by Brian Bloniarz).
+
+20120811
+ + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
+ (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
+ + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
+ + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
+
+20120804
+ + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
+ + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
+ + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
+ for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
+ Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
+ + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
+ --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
+ cf: 20110716).
+
+20120728
+ + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
+ is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
+ + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
+ + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
+ + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
+ + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
+ in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
+ Black).
+
+20120721
+ + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
+ + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
+ + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
+ use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
+ + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
+ use_env() versus use_tioctl().
+
+20120714
+ + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
+ Novell #769788):
+
+20120707
+ + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
+ Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
+ by Novell #769788).
+ + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
+ if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
+ KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
+ resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
+ received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
+ dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
+
+20120630
+ + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
+ + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
+ some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
+ llib-lncurses.
+ + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
+ cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20120622
+ + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
+ + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
+ Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
+
+20120616
+ + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
+ warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
+ are enabled.
+ + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
+ by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
+ a new primary name.
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
+ + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
+
+20120608
+ + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
+ (cf: 20120526).
+ + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
+ by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
+ + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
+ is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
+ + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
+ The resulting packages are used only for testing.
+
+20120602
+ + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
+ + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
+ + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
+ + add dl to simpleterm -TD
+ + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
+ controls, and insert/delete-char keys
+ + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
+ duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
+ entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
+ command-line.
+ + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
+ analysis by Martin Husemann).
+ + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
+ Onno van der Linden).
+
+20120526
+ + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
+ entries.
+ + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
+ two are given.
+ + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
+ freebsd-hackers mailing list).
+
+20120512
+ + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
+ + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
+ holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
+ the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
+ + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
+ unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
+ + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
+
+20120505
+ + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
+ + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
+ + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
+ + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
+ + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
+ + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
+ + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
+ configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
+
+20120428
+ + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
+ + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
+ + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
+ + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
+ + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
+ + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
+ + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
+ + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
+ + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
+ are interpreted as key definitions.
+ + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
+ capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
+ keys.
+
20120421
+ improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
+ add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
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