On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 04:15:56PM +0800, Rick Ju 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. > > Ncurses is only source compatible with curses. I checked the PSAC and > didn't find who owns curses. Who could give a contact? If curses is > committed interface could we still replace it?
It's one of the unowned pieces, which is one reason that getting rid of it is appealing. I'll see if I can dig up the right person or alias. >>>> 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. > >>>> It's not clear this one is useful if it's shipped in /usr/lib. > > Because the conflict between ncurses and curses, we put a "g" prefix in > front of the command names > and install them in /usr/bin and then have a link to the command in > /usr/gnu/bin without the "g" prefix. This is what we usually do when > shipping name-conflicting GNU utilities. I was talking about the library, not the commands. We don't prefix libraries whose names don't conflict with anything else. Danek
