Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:24:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libncurses 1.9.9e ready to commit Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960409132027.9514H-100000@freebsd.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199604091515.KAA03884@sparcmill.grauel.com>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > I need (well, I really really want) terminfo support, so I hope you can > and do commit it with terminfo available. I *use*, on mulitple platforms, > some of the standard capabilities terminfo supports for printers. > Currently, part of my "standard configuration" for a new FreeBSD system is > to rebuild libmytinfo with terminfo support; I can then use the same code > under SVR4, Solaris, and FreeBSD. > > I see no problem with having 2 potential sources of terminal/printer info; > if you want to make sure you're using the termcap version (for example), > just mv the terminfo file out of the way (or set TERMINFO to /tmp). > well, looks like I have one person that understands my point of view on this :) In order to get the library to the point that it compiles and installs correctly, I did exactly that. I moved /usr/lib/terminfo out of the way so that it forced itself to use termcap. terminfo isn't installed on a standard FreeBSD system, so unless someone *wants* to use terminfo, and installs it manually, its going to use termcap... But I don't believe that we should be disabling functionality in a library that some ppl will want (and are) using because others don't want it. It doesn't save *that* much space overall, and it makes it all the harder to upgrade the library at a later date (look at the argument about binutils...) Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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