ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap.
[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-3 ]] NOTE TO MAINTAINERS: You may need to add -ltinfo to LIBS when linking against ncurses. This is the first (non-brown-paper-bag) release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously- released ncurses-5.7-2 for cygwin-1.5 are documentation related (the README references cygport-0.9.4 and cygwin-1.7.0-41, and the /usr/share/doc/ layout is influenced by the cygport changes between 0.4.x and 0.9.x). Future development may add re-entrancy/multithread support, and wide character (UTF) support. However, those changes will require (another) ABI change and DLL name modification, and will not occur prior to cygwin-1.7's official launch. CHANGES since 5.5-3: ======================== o Fork for cygwin-1.7 development o Update to latest release (5.7) with current patchset (20090228) o Build using stock cygport 0.9.4 o Build using --with-ticlib (separate add-on library exposes internal ncurses details), so that the (now) separately-distributed tack program can link successfully. - libncurses9 package now additionally includes cygtic-9.dll o Build using --with-termlib (separates terminfo database parsing and manipulation from terminal window control). This will be helpful when widechar support is added -- because the libtinfo portions are character-width agnostic, allowing both versions of ncurses to share the same backend libtinfo. - libncurses9 package now additionally includes cygtinfo-9.dll o Turned on 5-button mouse support and sp-funcs - these changes, together with the separate ticlib and termlib, constitute a new ABI, which is why the DLL version number was bumped to 9. o Did not enable reentrancy, threading support, or wide character support. For the first two, see /usr/share/doc/ncurses-*/ThreadingSupport. The last item may be added later, but only for cygwin-1.7. o Modified spelling of public, but accessor-wrapped data symbols to avoid "private" _nc_* namespace. This ABI change does NOT affect the API as used by clients (that is, no source code changes should be needed). o Added preremove script, in preparation for deprecating the back-compatibility symlinks in /usr/lib/ncurses and /usr/include. o Upstream changes: - tack program now distributed separately - pkg-config .pc files now provided - ncurses8-config script now provided - many more demo programs in ncurses-demo - /usr/share/terminfo database now organized by hex code of first character (e.g. instead of r/rxvt, we have 72/rxvt (0x72 == 'r'). See warning, below. WARNING: ======================== Because of a change in the organization of the terminfo database, terminfo entries NOT part of the terminfo package may need to be manually upgraded or copied. To improve operation on case-insensitive platforms, the terminfo database is now organized according to the two-digit hexadecimal code of the entry's first letter, instead of organized according to that first letter itself. For instance: OLD (terminfo0) ---> NEW (terminfo) r/rxvt-unicode 72/rxvt-unicode To "fix" any out-of-place entries, you may manually copy them to the correct location, or re-run tic.exe on the original terminfo source for that terminal. In the case of rxvt-unicode: $ /etc/postinstall/rxvt-unicode.sh.done will do the job. Note that the old database organization can co-exist with the new one (with the obvious duplication of data entailed). Thus, libncurses8-dependent applications will continue to work properly, so long as the new terminfo0 package is installed along with the updated terminfo package. This upgrade/co-install should happen automatically without user intervention. -- Charles Wilson ncurses volunteer maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/