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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.
+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 (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.
+ + 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
+ --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
+ termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
+ Weisgerber).
+ + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
+ cf: 20061230).
+ + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
+ + updated llib-l* files.
+
+20131207
+ + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
+ well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
+ Hope).
+
+20131123
+ + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
+ recognized by clang.
+
+20131116
+ + 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).
+ + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
+ strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
+ together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
+ 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
+ gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
+ + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
+ checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
+ + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
+ checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
+ and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
+ -Wvarargs
+ + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
+ work on cdk.
+ + update config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20131110
+ + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
+
+20131102
+ + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
+ + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
+ + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
+ (Debian #727119).
+ + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
+
+20131027
+ + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
+ reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
+ + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
+ them more consistent with other packages.
+
+20131019
+ + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
+ compiling ncurses-examples.
+ + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
+
+20131014
+ + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
+
+20131012
+ + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
+ + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
+ + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
+ cross-compiles to MinGW.
+ + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
+ MinGW using NSIS.
+
+20131005
+ + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
+ + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
+ to MinGW.
+
+20130928
+ + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
+ it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
+ addressed.
+ + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
+ OpenBSD 5.3
+ + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
+ + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
+ nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
+ + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
+ + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
+
+20130921
+ + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
+ + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
+ by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
+
+20130907
+ + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
+ Alexey Pavlov).
+ + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
+ before/after Debian #700177.
+ + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
+ + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
+ Alexey Pavlov).
+ + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
+ of sort, improving portability.
+ + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20130831
+ + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
+ attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
+ italics test.
+ + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
+ character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
+ + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
+
+20130824
+ + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
+ + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
+ introduced by Debian #700177.
+ + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
+ was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
+
+20130816
+ + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
+ addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
+ generic_type.
+ + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
+ + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
+ port when tic and other programs are not needed.
+
+20130805
+ + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
+ configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
+ rpm macros.
+ + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
+ cross-compile support packages.
+ + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
+
+20130727
+ + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
+ + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
+ + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
+ dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
+ rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
+ + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
+ are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
+ + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
+ + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
+ the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
+
+20130720
+ + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
+ initialization of cur_term.
+
+20130713
+ + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes
+
+20130706
+ + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
+ + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
+ wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
+ + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
+ --enable-auto-import flag.
+ + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
+ table issues.
+
+20130622
+ + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
+ capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
+ + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
+ + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
+ of sgr.
+ + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
+ + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
+ (patch by Eric Raymond).
+
+20130615
+ + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
+ + 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".
+ + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
+ not printing the full pathname of the program.
+ + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
+ + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
+ such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
+
+20130608
+ + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
+ as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
+ function pointer.
+ + add test/dots_termcap.c
+ + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
+ + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
+ + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
+ into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
+ expansion to free-format input/out demo.
+ + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
+ + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
+ terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
+ + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
+ cf: 20121117).
+ + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
+ --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
+
+20130525
+ + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
+ library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
+ of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
+ it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
+ the left margin of the display.
+ + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
+ + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
+ NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
+ use of these symbols in term_entry.h
+
+20130518
+ + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
+ interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
+ + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
+ 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + update doctype used for html documentation.
+
+20130511
+ + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
+ plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
+ + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
+ + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
+ prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
+ (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
+
+20130504
+ + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
+ display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
+ + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
+ + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
+
+20130427
+ + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
+ + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
+
+20130413
+ + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
+ (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
+ + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
+ type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
+ Gribenko).
+ + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
+ (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
+ + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
+ c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
+
20130406
+ improve parameter checking in copywin().
+ modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
20130209
+ modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
- mingw environment.
+ MinGW environment.
+ if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
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
+ modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
--disable-echo option is used.
+ modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
- writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20070707
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
generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
+ modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
- Koblinger Egmont).
+ Egmont Koblinger).
20031004
+ add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
+ modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
- #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ #68199.
+ add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
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