Re: NCURSES not done, and not going to mess with build system.

[Tsume <tsume@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:51:21 +0800, Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone, I'm Tsume. Thanks for reading.

> > Its well worth the  upgrade, but I feel it very inefficient how I've re  
> > rewrite the makefiles  from scratch just because I don't have 3 hours  
> > just to write makefiles. I  want to hack the generated makefile in the  
> > build, but I know it wouldn't  be accepted because its not standard.
>
> I am still not understanding here.
>
> Do you mean that ncurses 5.4 from pkgsrc has been stripped down/back from
> 'conventional' ncurses, and you are working to bring it back into line  
> or ...?

The makefiles used for build are not like the makefiles generated after  
running ./configure, they are completely different. I could hack them in,  
but it would look horrible.

> > Heres a link to the NEWS in CVS
> > code-exec dot net slash ncurses-5.4 slash NEWS
> >  all modifications since 20000708(5.1 Release)
>
> ACK.  But nothing new for nearly 13 months since 5.4 was released....

Well, actually xterm 256 color support, and many other additions have been  
developed since the release of 5.4. You can view the patches from Dickey's  
CVS at

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.4/

There have been numerous bugfixes and additions. I was unsure of using a  
CVS version of ncurses for the reason of using release versions, and using  
code which is what others would be running on thier unix variant.

> Still not sure what your changes are, or if they are 'restoral' or new  
> additions.
> (5.4.x, 5.5 ...?)

I made no changes to ncurses. I needed to clean up what was not needed  
from the release. There just needs to be the files only needed for  
building.

> > I'm still waiting patiently on joerg to complete Wide Character  
> > support  for DragonFly. *smile*
>
> 'Wide" as in DBCS? UTF-16?  Other Asian language character encoding?

http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/ <-- the specification  
1003.1, specifices wide character
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/wchar.h.html

tojhiro, tojkata and others would be nice to have in the base libraries.
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/libs/basetrf1/jconv.htm

kinda like this guys source code
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/cjkv/src/jconv.c

Unicode Standard: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.1/


Theres plenty of books to read.
Understanding Japanese Information Processing
CJKV Information Processing

Theres many more books on Unicode out there.
Have a good day.

TSUME