Re: Ncurses support?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jeffrey,

> My goal is to find a way to drop Ncurses from my build scripts. It
> causes too much trouble.

What trouble do you get? Portability problems?

> The rub is, a lot of programs depend on it.

What do these programs actually need? Ncurses? Any implementation of
curses? Just the terminal info facilities?

> Is it possible to provide a Ncurses replacement via Gnulib? Is this
> something the project would consider?

So far, I'm not seeing a need. Ncurses is GNU, has regular releases,
and supports most platforms nicely. When a package depends on it, I
just install it.

Bruno