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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.
+20140913
+ + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
+ C++ cross-compilers.
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
+
+20140906
+ + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
+ NetBSD.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes.
+
+20140831
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
+ options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
+ a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
+
+20140823
+ + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
+ width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
+ cf: 20050813).
+
+20140816
+ + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
+ it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
+ + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
+
+20140809
+ + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
+ reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
+ in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
+ having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
+ which reverses cause/effect.
+ + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
+ have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
+ + fixes for win_driver.c:
+ + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
+ + implement beep().
+ + minor cleanup.
+
+20140802
+ + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
+ + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
+ + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
+ + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
+ "trace" feature:
+ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
+ + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
+ + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
+ typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
+ (cf: 20140726).
+
+20140726
+ + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
+ ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
+ discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
+ + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
+ + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
+ used to override the different treatment of justification for static
+ versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
+ + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
+ Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
+
+20140719
+ + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
+ + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
+ options, from xterm changes.
+
+20140712
+ + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
+ + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
+ without sp-funcs.
+
+20140705
+ + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
+ video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
+
+20140629
+ + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
+ NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
+ + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
+ subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
+ fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
+ + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
+ compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
+
+20140621
+ + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
+ conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
+ + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
+ upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
+ total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
+ providing directly comparable screens.
+ + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
+
+20140614
+ + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
+ (cf: 20140524).
+ + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
+ reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
+ + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
+ + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
+ + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
+ + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
+ + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
+
+20140609
+ > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
+ Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
+ + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
+ + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
+ screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
+
+20140607
+ + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
+ overlap with sgr functionality.
+ + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
+ option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
+ + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
+ + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
+ packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
+ + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
+ older ncurses than 20131207.
+ + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
+ + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
+ + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
+ + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
+ + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
+
+20140524
+ + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
+ environment variable.
+ + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
+ + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
+ + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
+ + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
+ terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
+ + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
+ + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
+ + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
+ + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
+ because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
+ stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
+ + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
+ activate additional checks which compare the results from running
+ tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
+ expressions.
+ + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
+ cf: 20120324).
+ > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
+ + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
+ + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
+ instead of <>.
+ + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
+ was removed by an obsolete pragma.
+ + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
+ available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
+ replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
+ + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
+ some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
+ compiler flags.
+ + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
+ package.
+ + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
+ + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
+ + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
+ + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
+ + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
+ + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
+ was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
+ to be consecutive anyway.
+ + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
+ + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
+ + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
+ + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
+
+20140510
+ + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
+ + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
+ which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
+
+20140503
+ + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
+ + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
+ ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20140426
+ + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
+ Pfeifer).
+ + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
+ simplify later merging:
+ + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
+ + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
+ + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
+ + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
+ the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
+ cf: 20090927).
+
+20140419
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20140412
+ + modify configure script:
+ + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
+ + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
+ with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
+ + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
+ + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
+ + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
+ + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
+ "#win32console", and
+ + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
+ to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
+
+20140329
+ + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
+ + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
+ with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
+ + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
+ get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
+ + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
+ 0.4.1 -TD
+
+20140323
+ + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
+
+20140322
+ + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
+ + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
+ using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
+ + add terminology entry -TD
+ + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
+ + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
+
+20140315
+ + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
+ top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
+ on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
+ + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
+ be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
+ Soren Brinkmann).
+
+20140308
+ + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
+ NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
+ + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
+ + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
+ allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
+
+20140301
+ + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
+
+20140222
+ + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
+ + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
+ + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
+ console -TD
+
+20140215
+ + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
+ allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
+ variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
+ discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
+ when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
+ + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
+ scrolling-stages.
+ + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
+ html emitted by docbook.
+
+20140209
+ + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
+ has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
+ (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
+
+20140201
+ + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
+ which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
+ + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
+ representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
+ least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
+
+20140125
+ + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
+ not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
+ new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
+ by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+
+20140118
+ + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
+ gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
+
+20131221
+ + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
+ manpages. See
+ ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
+
20131214
+ modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
recognized by clang.
20131116
- + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
20130615
+ minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
- + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
+ + 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".
a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
+ correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
by Erwin Waterlander).
- + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
+ + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ correct coloring in test/bs.c
+ correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
20121017
- + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
+ + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
(Redhat #866989).
20121013
+ make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
- give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
(Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
+ drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ change recommended regular expression library.
+ modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
- + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
+ + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
20111231
+ modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
+ Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
- warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
20110423
+ add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
+ quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
+ modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
- (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
+ (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
20091017
+ modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
20090815
+ correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
- broken in 20090509 merging.
+ broken in 20090510 merging.
+ modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
20090718
+ fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
- 20070704 changes.
+ 20090704 changes.
+ modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
+ make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
using that in the libtool link-commands.
+ fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
- from 2009031 changes.
+ from 20090321 changes.
+ improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
termlib) is to be linked.
However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
+ modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
- konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
+ konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
the new ones do not require this change. -TD
+ remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
(reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
- (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
+ (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
+ minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
+ add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
+ modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
+ modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
does not have getttynam().
+ extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
- + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
+ + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
+ improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
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