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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1304 2008/10/04 23:01:08 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.
+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
+ + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+ + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
+ does not work well on that platform).
+ + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
+
+20081018
+ + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+ in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
+ Nit Khair).
+ + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
+ --disable-database is used.
+ + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
+ to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
+ (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+ + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
+ CF_LIBUTF8.
+
+20081012
+ + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
+ original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+ + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+ + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+ + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+ + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+ + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
+ overlooked til now.
+
+20081011
+ + update html documentation.
+ + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
+ the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+ + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+ + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+ + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
+ tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
+ 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
+
20081004
+ some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
works for C/C++ parts).
20070609
+ add test/key_name.c
- + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
+ update test/configure
+ correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ null-terminate result of wunctrl().
shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
20070210
- + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
projects / ncurses.git / blobdiff