> >That's very interesting. You seem to be under impression that termcap is > >not being phased out. Your original understanding was correct, but what > >was the reason to doubt it? > > > Well, the comings and goings of linux can be confusing > at times. You said that --with-terminfo was dead, and I > thought that you meant you weren't supporting it anymore, > but I guess you meant that it's the default.
That's a great relief. I thought something is wrong with the documentation. In fact, the default didn't change. The default is (may be not 100% correct, I'm not checking it now): with ncurses - let ncurses decide with external S-Lang - let S-Lang decide, don't force using termcap with included S-Lang - use terminfo if terminfo database is found The option --with-terminfo was essentially an equivalent of --with-included-slang, so that the usage of terminfo was "guaranteed" if the terminfo database was present. Since the side effect (switching to the included S-Lang) exceeded the intended effect by far (ncurses and S-Lang almost certainly use terminfo now, in year 2002), I decided to remove this option as useless, confusing and effectively duplicate. Another reason, as I said, was that I saw somebody using --with-termcap and --with-terminfo in the same time, and the effect was that termcap was used, so --with-terminfo wasn't guaranteeing anything. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel