ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100417

[ncurses.git] / TO-DO

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.53 2008/11/28 16:39:12 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.54 2010/01/09 16:48:05 tom Exp $
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 SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:
@@ -96,21 +96,20 @@ Portability (or lack thereof):
   trip over a known problem with the signal-handling code which causes abrupt
   termination of ncurses applications following resume from a ^Z suspend (this
   problem was first seen running lynx).  You will not see this problem if you
-  are running Linux or one of the 4.4BSD derivatives like FreeBSD, NetBSD, or
-  BSDI.  For details, see the analysis in the header comment of
-  ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
+  are using one of the 4.4BSD derivatives like such as, NetBSD, or BSDI, or
+  systems using that convention.  For details, see the analysis in the header
+  comment of ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
 
 + In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h
   interface for handling variadic argument lists (and are deprecated by X/Open
-  for that reason).  Linux doesn't have varargs.h, it has the newer
-  X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent.  So these functions use stdargs
-  instead.  This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building ncurses on
-  a System V old enough to only have varargs.h.  (Solaris 2.5.1 used the
-  stdarg.h binding as well).
-
-+ If you're using a BSD earlier than 4.4BSD, or a Linux old enough not to have
-  a native vsscanf(3) in its library, vwscanw() will not work.  You lose.  (It
-  should work on any System V, however).  If you want to fix this, add an
+  for that reason).  Many newer systems do no have varargs.h, instead they have
+  only the newer X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent.  So these functions use
+  stdargs instead.  This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building
+  ncurses on a System V old enough to only have varargs.h.  (Solaris 2.5.1 used
+  the stdarg.h binding as well).
+
++ If you're using a system old enough not to have a native vsscanf(3) in its
+  library, vwscanw() will not work.  If you want to fix this, add an
   implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c.
 
 + The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers.