X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4518a4c46e6692a023943c137bf36c4181e03185;hp=ebb04c073d37820f2807c0e18485756dc84be6d7;hb=daf57f17ced271693696cc30860aae20c97fb8d0;hpb=29b24b6ba47681c8a26007492567c3daecb3defe diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ebb04c07..4518a4c4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1825 2011/11/27 01:30:42 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1854 2012/02/04 22:25:57 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,100 @@ 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. +20120204 + + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide + better diagnostics. + +20120128 + + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault) + + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD + + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD + + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD + + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to + give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730). + + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory + consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset + (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim). + +20120121 + + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors + of OS/2 EMX. + + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD + port. + + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the + path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for + directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107). + + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han). + +20120114 + + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on + Linux Mint forum): + + modify movement commands to make them continuous + + rewrote the test for mvderwin + + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin + + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in + + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X + and OpenBSD. + + regenerated html manpages. + +20120107 + + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer): + + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member + + drop mk-dlls.sh script. + + change recommended regular expression library. + + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton. + + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used. + +20111231 + + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add + a column showing which entries belong to a given database. + + add -s option to toe, to sort its output. + + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use + caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126. + + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are + given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report + by Sven Joachim). + +20111224 + + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work + with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter + analysis. + + add putty-sco entry -TD + +20111217 + + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option + was not being used. + + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it + could use. + + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib + are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in + the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses + and termlib. + + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is + enabled. + + use types to fix some questionable casts to void*. + +20111210 + + modify configure script to check if thread library provides + pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6 + + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE + for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus + _SGI_SOURCE. + + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and + tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126). + + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script. + +20111203 + + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary + copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by + Debian #646977). + + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++. + 20111126 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries (cf: 20111001).