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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.
+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 (patch by 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.
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).
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
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