ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090228

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1358 2009/01/17 23:54:20 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1367 2009/02/28 22:38:03 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,39 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20090228
+       + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+       + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
+         enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090221
+       + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090214
+       + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
+         extended functions.
+       + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
+         + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
+           curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
+           some internals work is needed to complete these).
+         + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
+
+20090207
+       + update several configure macros from lynx changes
+         + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
+         + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
+       + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+         + make it work with $DESTDIR
+         + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
+
+20090124
+       + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
+         the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
+         Giaquinta).
+       + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
+       + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
+         gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
+
 20090117
        + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
          *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's