X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=360bc09433bf49698c0ee2daccf7b8ee8421480d;hp=4da6e362465a7340655bdcad0fa6e2bd9d1b9628;hb=f5da57ad7eb397b1001e2fca9cb0e278a6564716;hpb=26522e4669dbf45cba32138b5d81c6c292e88e60 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4da6e362..360bc094 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1392 2009/05/30 19:19:59 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1459 2009/11/07 22:13:22 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,192 @@ 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. +20091107 + + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute- + and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen. + + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form + library which help make it compatible with interop applications + (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes + for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer + +20091031 + + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open + as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character + (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler). + + add START_TRACE in slk_init + + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show + soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging. + + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to + false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274). + + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by + discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201). + + add test/xterm-256color.dat + +20091024 + + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings. + + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a + SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application + (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223). + +20091017 + + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in + a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716). + +20091010 + + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf(). + + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran). + + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well + as in lib_screen.c + +20091003 + + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick- + and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko). + + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim) + + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD + > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler: + + add linux-16color + + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range + + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc + +20090927 + + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since + that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo. + + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with + terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat + more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional + termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to + be enabled. + + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses + library (some work remains for forms library). + +20090919 + + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran). + + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter + (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).). + + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian + changes. + + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match + Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter). + + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than + bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski). + +20090912 + + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys + by sharing linedata.h functions): + test/test_addstr.c + test/test_addwstr.c + test/test_addchstr.c + test/test_add_wchstr.c + + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when + inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used + did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun). + +20090906 + + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not + work. + + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions. + + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW + (discussion with Mark Dickinson). + + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was + enabled. + +20090905 + + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim). + + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number + agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090829 + + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on + amd64 (Debian #542031). + + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198). + +20090822 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090815 + + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys, + broken in 20090509 merging. + + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error + in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch). + + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to + help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX. + + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's + $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build + compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363). + + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an + enable-type switch. + + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier). + +20090808 + + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from + implementation details of hash function. + +20090803 + + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames + + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test + from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735). + +20090801 + + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for + cross-compiling and building fallbacks. + + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in + test/demo_terminfo.c + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F. + +20090728 + + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all + string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai, + cf: 20090711). + +20090725 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090718 + + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from + 20070704 changes. + + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing. + + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would + change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible. + + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle + differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return + values. + + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null + which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427). + + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc. + +20090711 + + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic. + + minor fixes for memory-leak checking. + + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap + +20090704 + + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch). + + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on + unctrl(). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090627 + + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs. + + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure + option. + + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when + integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to + MinGW. + +20090613 + + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to + make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix"). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090607 + + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges. + +20090606 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + 20090530 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).