ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070303

[ncurses.git] / NEWS

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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1092 2007/02/25 00:45:56 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1096 2007/03/04 00:17:25 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ 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.
 
+20070303
+       + regenerated html documentation.
+       + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
+         opaque in selected configurations.
+       + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
+         running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
+         _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
+         identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+       + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
+         outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
+         only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
+         dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+       + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+         installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+         case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
+         Chua).
+       + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
+         (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
+
 20070224
        + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
          where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
@@ -71,7 +90,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
          programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
        + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
-         (report by Michail Vidiassov).   
+         (report by Michail Vidiassov).
        + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
          which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
          fixes.
@@ -90,7 +109,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20070203
        + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
-         from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. 
+         from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
          Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
          associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
          Ricardo Cantu).
@@ -102,7 +121,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          no longer relies on it.
        + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
          --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
-       + remove tack from ncurses tree.  
+       + remove tack from ncurses tree.
 
 20070128
        + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
@@ -118,7 +137,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
          its license consistent with ncurses.
        + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
-         the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
+         the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
        + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
 
 20070120