terminfo [Re: console enhancements: mouse events etc]

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue Feb 23 14:53:00 GMT 2010


>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>    
>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Actually, I just remember again that I though I should change the
>>>> terminfo entry too. Just - where's the source to patch?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/terminfo/terminfo-5.7_20091114-13-src.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> That -src package is basically just a wrapper around terminfo.src from
>>> ncurses-5.7 (as of patch level 20091114).  So, the ultimate upstream
>>> source is actually ncurses.  But I split it out specifically so that we
>>> could do faster updates of terminfo (rebuilding all of ncurses simply to
>>> change two characters in /usr/share/terminfo/[63|c]/cygwin is rather silly).
>>>
>>> So, send me patches against terminfo.src from that -src tarball, and
>>> once we've got it figured out, I'll push it upstream to the ncurses
>>> maintainer.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Sorry for the slightly late response. Attached is a small patch.
>>      
> Wrong mailing list.
>
>    
Really? I thought it was a patch, even if to go upstream. And Charles 
had requested it on that list.
No I wonder whether this is the right one...
Thomas



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