Re: "@NCURSES_PATCH@" stale in man pages

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 01:40:53PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> When I build the latest ncurses snapshot, the @NCURSES_PATCH@ string in
> man/ncurses.3x and man/terminfo.head gets replaced, but appears to be
> stuck in the past.
> 
> ...
>      Release 4 Unix (“SVr4”) and 4.4BSD Unix, the development of which
>      ceased in the 1990s.  This describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch
>      20240309).
> ...
>      Terminfo describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which
>      they have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by
>      specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
> 
>      This manual describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20240309).
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?

not I - the dist.mk file is where the numbers come from(*)
and is used for generating the ".html" files, e.g.,

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/terminfo.5.html

        This manual describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20240323).

(barring occasional blunders of course).

(*) I update dist.mk with a script "early" in a session (which may be
    as early as Sunday morning), and it gets the date from the
    directory-name used for development.  Occasionally I get the date
    wrong at the start, but don't recall the last time I published
    a patch with a wrong date.

    The same script updates several files where the version and date are
    embedded, but dist.mk is what matters most.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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