X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b807da1457140f76b3d6499b1535b36f426978b9;hp=c3da4581331559c2a324eb46aada1e5e06f8164c;hb=3a0d9d27e0cf115ff9dcc6163c251bccaa62bd7d;hpb=d803343ca3e2a419085e76fc9f04a6fbd14498b8 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c3da4581..b807da14 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1410 2009/07/25 15:50:22 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1452 2009/10/24 20:34:42 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,124 @@ 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. +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).