X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ae34c501d72578dcf996612ea77e45f009f58963;hp=ecd633cc40c6598dff83246b0dfaa9f8edb1a144;hb=5a9c046f10f72b47ad32801a8e54fe3d05aa8051;hpb=b6d7123594f6959ad0a6602b3952d9e6abe261a0 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ecd633cc..ae34c501 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1092 2007/02/25 00:45:56 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1109 2007/04/01 00:30:22 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,75 @@ 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. +20070331 + + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping + global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work). + + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it + to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set. + + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW + structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set. + + improved install-sh's quoting. + + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from + other programs. + +20070324 + + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface. + + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option + --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib. + + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with + NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to + an opaque pointer. + +20070317 + + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to + the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t. + + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character + in the configure script to an error. + + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs + such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov) + + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line. + + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range + + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail + Vidiassov). + + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version + of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ). + +20070311 + + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224 + changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070310 + + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work + properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter + Santoro). + + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to + implement a reentrant version of ncurses: + + libraries are suffixed with "t" + + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype, + COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as + functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term. + + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c, + i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm(). + +20070303 + + regenerated html documentation. + + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs + opaque in selected configurations. + + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when + running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into + _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made + identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar). + + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries + outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized + only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded + dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar). + + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or + installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in + case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff + Chua). + + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html + (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther). + 20070224 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was @@ -71,7 +140,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help - (report by Michail Vidiassov). + (report by Michail Vidiassov). + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224 fixes. @@ -90,7 +159,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20070203 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color) - from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. + from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the associated color overrides the field's background color (report by Ricardo Cantu). @@ -102,7 +171,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. no longer relies on it. + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan). - + remove tack from ncurses tree. + + remove tack from ncurses tree. 20070128 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option @@ -118,7 +187,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making its license consistent with ncurses. + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in - the c++ binding for scanw() methods. + the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias). + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding. 20070120