On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:40:37PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: > I'll try to get opinions about this. > > Since we're in the middle of packages migration, maybe it's an interesting > opportunity to try to use ncursesw and drop ncurses. > > ncursesw is ncurses + Unicode (UTF8) support > > Both libraries built out of the same source base, and they're just 2 build > variants. > From what I can see, Midnight Commander may have some problems building > with libncursesw, but I think those could be resolved. > > python + python3 pick up libncursesw if they find it, but they could be > configured to take libncurses > no idea about impact on other libs, hence this RFC > > in the openwrt/packages folder there are only these libs that reference > libncurses: > - deve/gdb > - utils/util-linux > - network/utils/iftop > - network/services/samba36
There are a lot more in the package feed on https://github.com/openwrt/packages Interestingly, utils/zsh depends both on libncurses and libncursesw. Also, sound/mocp can use one or the other: "+PACKAGE_libncursesw:libncursesw +!PACKAGE_libncursesw:libncurses" Here is the list of packages in the main feed depending on libncurses: - admin/htop - lang/erlang - lang/ruby - libs/liboping - libs/postgresql - libs/sqlite3 - libs/unixodbc - net/bmon - net/horst - net/irssi - net/kismet - net/krb5 - net/lftp - net/mtr - net/ocserv - net/wavemon - sound/lame - sound/mocp - utils/alsa-utils - utils/bash - utils/gnupg - utils/lvm2 - utils/mc - utils/minicom - utils/mysql - utils/nano - utils/opensc - utils/screen - utils/tcsh - utils/tmux - utils/zsh > libncursesw is slightly fatter (360 kb) than libncurses (295 kb) > Having both installed on a device seems redundant, even though together the > bloat is not too big. > > So, then, what would be some opinions/prefs ? > > Thanks > Alex > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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