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[PATCH 16/19] INSTALL: Document API/ABI changes (to defaults) with the o


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [PATCH 16/19] INSTALL: Document API/ABI changes (to defaults) with the others.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:46:30 -0500

Also try to make it really clear to lunks like me that the ncurses 6.5
(default) API/ABI is not finalized yet.  People should guess this from
the fact that they grab pre-release snapshots, but some don't.

See
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-10/msg00078.html>
et seq.
---
 INSTALL | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 505c663c..d43cd6e7 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1446,6 +1446,16 @@ COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER RELEASES:
     you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
     ncurses:
 
+    6.5 (TBD; not stable; in development)
+       Interface changes:
+
+       + the WINDOW structure and some related internal data types declared
+         in <curses.h> have been made opaque by default;
+       + the FORM, MENU, and PANEL structures and related internal data types
+         from their corresponding header files have been made opqaue by
+         default; and
+       + support for wide characters is now enabled by default.
+
     6.4 (Dec 31, 2022)
        Interface changes:
 
-- 
2.30.2

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