Your questions are answered in the README.md, I believe:
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
Yes, it is powered by (and requires) Terminfo. It ought work, more or less,
with all terminals capable of cursor-based addressing ("cup" Terminfo
capability). It quantizes color down at the moment in the absence of 24bit
RGB support, but I plan to issue perfect palettes for terminals with the
"ccc" capability Real Soon Now.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 19:47 John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> This is interesting. Out of curiosity, does notcurses still support
> terminfo and provide a functional implementation on non-ANSI terminals?
> (eg, IBM3151, etc)
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 02 2020, Nick Black wrote:
>
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Nick Black <dankamong...@gmail.com>
> >
> > * Package name : notcurses
> > Version : 1.1.4
> > Upstream Author : Nick Black <nickbl...@linux.com>
> > * URL : https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/notcurses
> > * License : Apache-2.0
> > Programming Lang: C, C++, Python
> > Description : Character-mode graphics and TUI library
> >
> > notcurses facilitates the creation of modern TUI programs,
> > making full use of Unicode and 24-bit direct color. It presents
> > an API similar to that of Curses, and rides atop libtinfo.
> >
> > Work on notcurses began in November of 2019, and it has had
> Debian-compatible
> > infrastructure (debhelper compat level 12) from the beginning. As of
> February
> > 2020, it is rapidly stabilizing, and being used in several tools. I've
> > rewritten my "growlight" disk management tool using notcurses instead of
> > ncurses, cutting out several thousand lines of UI code along the way.
> Nestopia
> > is about to merge notcurses support (coming out of maintenance mode to
> do so).
> > I'm working on a console SDR visualization tool that will make working
> with
> > remote SDRs much more pleasant, and expect to release it soon.
> >
> > Sid/unstable debs are available (and have been available for weeks) in
> my repo
> > at https://www.dsscaw.com/apt (this repo is available in Wouter
> Verhelst's
> > extrepo tool). The Debian packaging that I currently have can be seen
> here:
> > https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/tree/master/debian
> >
> > Notcurses can be regarded as a successor to ncurses. It provides much of
> the
> > functionality of that package, with major improvements IMHO regarding
> Unicode,
> > multithreading, and color support. 24-bit RGB with two bits of
> transparency is
> > the fundamental color space, and input/output are entirely based off
> UTF8 and
> > Unicode's Extended Grapheme Clusters. I've written many thousand lines of
> > ncurses code in my life, and expect to write no more--notcurses will
> entirely
> > supplant it in my projects. ncurses is a venerable, robust library, with
> a
> > fantastic maintainer in Thomas E. Dickey, but it's fundamentally bound to
> > X/OSI. It's time to move past 90s-era TUI APIs.
> >
> > As for maintaining the package, I've written 90%+ of the code in
> notcurses, and
> > intend to maintain it for the long haul. I'm actively committed to
> maintaining
> > the Debian/Ubuntu packaging, and indeed hope to use it as a springboard
> towards
> > Debian Developer status.
> >
> > notcurses has been included in Arch's AUR since its 0.4.0 release in
> November
> > 2019.
>
>
