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Re: Terminfo compatibility question
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Terminfo compatibility question |
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:37:51 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:36:07PM -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:
> Is the terminfo database and underlying API relatively stable? In other
> words, if an OS has terminfo provided by a package circa 2017 but I link my
> code statically against ncurses 2020 something-or-other, should I expect
> terminfo to still be usable on that system?
It's "relatively stable". The problems that I've fixed over the past couple
of years mainly affect the terminfo compiler when it resolves "use="
terms, especially in forward-references to extended capabilities.
Once a terminal description is compiled, there are no "use=" terms.
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