Kids, don't try this at home, it kills kittens! Well, not directly,
but trying to get sup running will drive you so mad you will try to
kill everything that moves. In other words: it doesn't work and the
fact that I'm trying this on opensolaris doesn't make it any easier.
The biggest issue is that the ruby binary from the package manager is
linked against the ancient solaris curses.so but ruby-ncurses needs
ncurses.so (which, to make the issue even more complicated, is in /usr/
gnu/lib). When both libraries are liked into one application, they
don't play along well (=segfaults). I had to compile ruby from source
and make sure it's not liked with curses.so, and also patch ruby-
ncurses slightly. I then managed to get sup to start up and read my
mails. However, there is one issue left that I'm not able to fix:
Ncurses.field.field_buffer() is returning garbage, and that makes is
impossible to write mails, search and set tags etc. The problem is
somewhere inside sup, as the ruby-ncurses example form2.rb is working
just fine (maybe it has something to do with encoding/locale?).
I have an ugly patch for lib/sup/textfield.rb that uses its own string
buffer instead of relying on field_buffer(). It's not perfect, but it
at least allows me to write emails and assign tags.
Other issues:
- strftime("%P") is a GNU extension, I work around this by using
strftime("%p").downcase.
- Iconv.iconv(target + "//IGNORE", charset, text + " ") <- the "//
IGNORE" is causing an InvalidEncoding exception, removing it didn't
seem to cause any regressions
tom
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