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

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:51:21 +0800, Bill Hacker <[e-mail]> 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