ncurses 5.6 - patch 20081011

[ncurses.git] / TO-DO

diff --git a/TO-DO b/TO-DO
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--- a/TO-DO
+++ b/TO-DO
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 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             --
 --                                                                           --
 -- 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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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.48 2006/10/28 19:49:16 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.51 2008/10/11 19:22:27 tom Exp $

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 SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:
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 SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:


@@ -58,12 +58,20 @@ Known Problems:
 + The window classes defined in the c++ subdirectory need documentation.  Some
   C++ programmer could earn a lot of good karma by doing this...
 
 + The window classes defined in the c++ subdirectory need documentation.  Some
   C++ programmer could earn a lot of good karma by doing this...
 

-+ The resizeterm() function does not handle ripped-off lines such as that done
-  for the slk_XXX functions.
-

 + vid_attr() should support the set_a_attributes (sgr1) string, but does not. 
   There appear to be no terminals that require that functionality.
 
 + vid_attr() should support the set_a_attributes (sgr1) string, but does not. 
   There appear to be no terminals that require that functionality.
 

++ the configure --disable-ext-funcs option does not work for Ada95 tree.
+
++ the --with-pthread configuration builds for Cygwin, but does not work
+  properly (test/worm.c shows all of the worms in the same location).
+
++ the --enable-rpath configure option builds for the corresponding platforms;
+  however combining it with --with-ticlib and --with-termlib does not always
+  produce libraries that can be run without setting environment variables.
+  Building those with libtool does not work either.  (This is a problem with
+  the BSD platforms).
+

 Portability (or lack thereof):
 
 + Users of older System V UNIXes (but not Solaris, and probably not SVr4) may
 Portability (or lack thereof):
 
 + Users of older System V UNIXes (but not Solaris, and probably not SVr4) may


@@ -75,19 +83,19 @@ Portability (or lack thereof):
   ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
 
 + In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h
   ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
 
 + In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h

-  interface for handling variadic argument lists.  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 uses the stdarg.h binding as well).
+  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
   implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c.
 
 
 + 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
   implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c.
 

-+ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers, mainly with
-  configure script problems with vsscanf().
++ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers.

 
 + terminfo.5 does not format with the SunOS (and most other platform's) tbl
   utility because it relies on a diversion for each table entry.  Get the
 
 + terminfo.5 does not format with the SunOS (and most other platform's) tbl
   utility because it relies on a diversion for each table entry.  Get the


@@ -106,7 +114,7 @@ LONGER-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:
 
 1. Extended COSE conformance
 
 
 1. Extended COSE conformance
 

-There is an XPG4 standard recently released which describes a superset
+There is an XPG4 standard released in 1996 which describes a superset

 of the SVr4 API.  The library is BASE conformant with this standard.
 We would like to make ncurses fully conformant at the EXTENDED level
 supporting internationalization.
 of the SVr4 API.  The library is BASE conformant with this standard.
 We would like to make ncurses fully conformant at the EXTENDED level
 supporting internationalization.