On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:14PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > The built-in path is: /etc/termcap, /usr/share/misc/termcap. But none of these > directories exist in Fedora. ncurses-base has /usr/share/terminfo. My > knowledge about termcap and terminfo is zero, but it seems that > /usr/share/terminfo files are binary files, while perl-Term-Cap expects > a plain text files. Maybe that's the difference between termcap and terminfo.
termcap is an obsolete format of terminal descriptions, which has some major limitions. Long time ago, Fedora shipped a termcap translated from the ncurses terminfo database, but everything should be using terminfo now. > And thus the hard dependency on ncurses is correct. At the end Term::Cap > documentation defines the Perl module as "a Perl termcap interface". Not as a > terminfo interface. Makes sense to me. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
