Danek Duvall wrote:
> Has any thought been given to replacing Solaris curses with ncurses? I
> believe that ncurses claims to be completely compatible with System V
> curses, and given that it's actually kept up-to-date, and is generally more
> featureful than Solaris curses, it would likely be a good move.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:59:47AM -0700, Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
>
>> /usr/lib/libgcurses.so
>> /usr/lib/libgform.so.5
>> /usr/lib/libgmenu.so.5
>> /usr/lib/libgncurses.so.5
>> /usr/lib/libgpanel.so.5
>> Volatile Supporting libraries
>> These are files with a
>> 'g' prefix
>
> Are any of these names used by anyone, anywhere? Is there any value in
> shipping them? You are, however, missing the most important one --
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -- which is what everyone is going to expect.
>
>> /usr/gnu/lib/libcurses.so
>> /usr/gnu/lib/libform.so.5
>> /usr/gnu/lib/libmenu.so.5
>> /usr/gnu/lib/libncurses.so.5
Questions:
Is ncurses being compiled with wide char/UTF support ?
If it is, the name of the libraries is usually set to libncursesw.so,
libtinfow.so, libformw.so, etc.
If it is not, wide char/UTF support will not be available.
Also, terminfo support in ncurses is based on two mechanisms:
1. directory based ( ${prefix}/share/terminfo/* )
2. Berkeley DB based (terminfo.db)
The Berkeley DB based implementation is usually slower (and creates a
dependency
on Berkeley DB).
--Stefan
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Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
