X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=72b0b8df78daabb583b03f08b8398b4982db3bcb;hp=068124a3db50e6b738c6cc9e97738c6ade6ee475;hb=c4d90db4f4e50bb8a971955ce4812262da4a50bc;hpb=cd858895e9086dadfb3d0a9ae69bc906de6330ea diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 068124a3..72b0b8df 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 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 -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1151 2007/08/12 13:56:58 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1197 2008/01/13 01:05:34 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,147 @@ 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. +20080112 + + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c + + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's + adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when + softkeys were used. + +20080105 + + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the + "link_test" builds properly. + + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given. + + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728 + (report by Miroslav Lichvar) + + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the + soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova) + + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be + cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors + question). + + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE. + +20071222 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for delwin(). + +20071215 + + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that + pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee). + +20071201 + + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the + INSTALL file. + + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries. + + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no + applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124). + +20071124 + + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which + is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by + pierre4d2 comments). + + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is + used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed + by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung). + + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report + by Chris Lee). + +20071117 + + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to + generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the + filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov). + + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the + configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case + filenames. + + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee). + + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make + it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are + declared. + +20071103 + + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c + + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler). + +20071020 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for use_window(). + + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified + cursor keys -TD + + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by + Rong-En Fan). + +20071013 + + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built + without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on + that library. + + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or + the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger). + + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla + #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar). + + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for + the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD + +20071006 + + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which + changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing + cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked + memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070929 + + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef() + calls within the ncurses library. + + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into + the SCREEN. + + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete). + + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make + it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer). +20070915 + + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building + shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support. + + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for + the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated. + + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example. + +20070908 + + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support + for threaded library (incomplete). + + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from + creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by + Rong-En Fan). + +20070901 + + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links + for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4. + + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete). + + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const + + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage + to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion. + + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure + options (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070825 + + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function + (cf: 971004). + + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings" + option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20070818 + + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD + + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null + "\0" followed by a digit. + + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings. + This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where + the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions. + + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection + which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file + which was introduced to fix "make -j". + + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c + + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it + when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ). + 20070812 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017). @@ -135,7 +276,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (discussion with Clive Nicolson). + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to illustrate how to use mvcur(). - + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the + + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo). @@ -205,7 +346,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20070407 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x - + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).