Re: Ncurses support?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 25 Feb 2022 14:32, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 25 Feb 2022 04:31, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:58 AM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On 25 Feb 2022 02:45, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 1:53 AM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > > > On 25 Feb 2022 00:42, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 6:07 PM Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > > > > > > Have you reported it?
> > > > > > > > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#report_bugs
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Oh yeah, forgot to mention... No public bug tracker. You could 
> > > > > > > have
> > > > > > > looked this up yourself if there was one. But yes, they've been
> > > > > > > reported.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the bug-ncurses@ list is the bug tracker.  and it's public.  oh, 
> > > > > > hai:
> > > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-02/msg00013.html
> > > > >
> > > > > That's called a mailing list; not a bug tracker.
> > > >
> > > > that's what you call it
> > > >
> > > > but since you're trying to build a list of reasons that gnulib should 
> > > > fork,
> > > > please point me to gnulib's "bug tracker" that isn't a mailing list
> > >
> > > Gnulib does not have one either. But it's irrelevant to this conversation.
> >
> > it is not: you're trying to argue that ncurses is not well maintained 
> > because
> > of X, and gnulib should fork it because gnulib is a "healthier" project, but
> > then you want to ignore that gnulib also does X.
> 
> Gnulib has a bug tracker on Savannah. Gnulib not using it is a
> different problem.

sounds like gnulib is unhealthy and should be forked.
maybe Thomas Dickey would be interested :p.
-mike

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