Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote: >>Alistair Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If it comes back, it needs to be modified to use curses - the hardcoded >>> terminal escapes for a bunch of 1970s terminals is kinda cute in a retro >>> way; it's also kinda embarassing. >> >>From a very quick look half of window sources (tt* and ww* files) are >>its homebrew curses replacement. If we are going to throw that out >>and switch to curses I'd expect quite a bit of initial rototill and >>instability (and don't forget whatever bugs that are hiding in our >>curses :) Doing that work when it's already re-imported to src and >>enabled would be quite a bit of churn. Can that be done outside of >>src first, in othersrc or whereever? > > There is the benefit keeping the whole history though if we import it > as is and then work on a branch.
In that case it needs to be fetched out from the src's attic. The othersrc copy was re-imported, not repo-copied. (For the record, I'm still not convinced it makes much sense to try to bring it back.) -uwe
