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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1079 2007/02/04 00:30:41 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.
+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
+ ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
+ + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
+ + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
+ + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
+ + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
+ Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
+ + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+
+20070217
+ + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
+ enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
+ disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
+ Adam J Richter).
+ + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
+ the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
+ programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
+ which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
+ fixes.
+ + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
+ shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070210
+ + 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
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
+ for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
+ regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
+
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.
+ modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
(requested by Bryan Henderson).
- + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile).
+ + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
+ modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
20031108
+ add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
- + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
+ + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
+ Gray).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20031101
"--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
+ correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
(reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
- + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
+ + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
<jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
20030503
<bledp@voila.fr>)).
+ change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
- filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
+ filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
<joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
+ corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
+ revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
980321
+ revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
- declared (from Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
+ declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
+ remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
+ corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
Lukyanov).