From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 8 16:52:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12665 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 16:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6464.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12630 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 16:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00248; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:50:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:50:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Greg Skafte cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why are we still using ? In-Reply-To: <19980408125035.19462@worldgate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [inappropriate X-post deleted] On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Greg Skafte wrote: > Outta curiosity why are we still using the 1.8.6 version of ncurses > when there is 4.2.x out and has been for a while .... its been > a nagging thorn to most of us mutt fanatics .... 4.2.x hasn't been "officially" out for that long... > yes I know I can compile my own copy but its a pain maintaining 2 versions > of ncurses and I don't want to replace it out of simple fear of all the > other things that might break ... There is an ncurses port submission which I don't think has been committed, yet. I'm not sure that it's for the 4* version, but perhaps the maintainer of mutt should make mutt depend on it. Even with ncurses 4* in the system, we always strip a fair bit of stuff out of it... -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message