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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1593 2010/09/18 22:53:08 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1626 2011/01/01 23:11:55 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.
+20110101
+ + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
+ except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
+
+20101225
+ + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
+ allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+
+20101211
+ + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
+ R Sedeno).
+ + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
+ + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
+ characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
+ wide-character configuration.
+ + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
+ + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
+ referred to quitting with 'q'.
+
+20101204
+ + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
+ strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
+ version which works with termcap.
+ + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
+ (request by Sven Joachim).
+ + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20101128
+ + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
+ case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
+ mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
+
+20101127
+ + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
+ out-of-tree.
+ + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
+ + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
+
+20101120
+ + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
+ changes.
+ + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
+ e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
+ rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
+ + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
+ for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
+ library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
+ since 2003 -TD
+
+20101113
+ + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
+ + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
+ + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
+ #267 changes.
+ + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
+
+20101106
+ + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
+ a separate package.
+ + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
+ package.
+
+20101023
+ + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
+ Philip Ganchev).
+ + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
+ when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
+ more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
+ + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
+ warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
+ scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
+ tree (report by Werner Fink).
+ + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
+ + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
+ which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
+ (report by John P. Hartmann)
+ + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20101009
+ + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
+ entry (Novell #644831) -TD
+ + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
+ gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
+ + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
+ external package "cindent".
+
+20101002
+ + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
+ pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
+ + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
+ inconsistent printer-controls.
+ + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
+ form is available -TD
+ + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
+ ANSI -TD
+ + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
+ Sven Joachim).
+ + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+ + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+ + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
+ distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
+ in mingw_arch
+
+20100925
+ + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
+ xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
+ special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
+ README.MinGW).
+ + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+
20100918
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
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