On 09-Aug-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> So at the moment we have a small patch to get ncurses's c++ binding to >> compile >> under 3.1. The problem is ncurses also uses a deprecated string stream >> class. >> >> It was suggested that maybe we could simply not build the c++ interface >> because >> technically it is not required by the LSB. I think this would be wrong and >> will lead to applications failing to work. > > Do you have any particular examples? Who uses the C++ bindings?
in the si itself nothing. But there are plenty of C++ apps using curses out there. More importantly, the C++ bindings have been shipped with ncurses for a long time so they are assumed to be there. I believe this is part of the reason why they were missed by the LSB.
