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On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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> I've heard (I'm not so sure, because I haven't developed for ncurses) |
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> that wide ncurses is compatible with narrow ncurses, and the ebuild |
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it's source-compatible, but not binary-compatible. You'll have to |
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recompile things. The size of a cell |
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changes, and that's visible in a few places. |
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The wide-character flavor adds several functions (which require defining |
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_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to use). dialog can use the latter (mainly for |
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handling wide-character input). Things like line-drawing are compatible |
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(again, the wide-character library adds functions). |
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> that is uploaded in that bug should be interesting, from the point of |
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> view that makes symlinks from narrow ncurses to wide ncurses, so the |
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> apps linked against narrow ncurses won't be hurt (they shouldn't need |
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> even be recompiled), and the apps that support wide ncurses would work |
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> normally. |
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> As you say that the bug report seems to be heading in the right |
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> direction, but take in count when it was opened, and today it hasn't |
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> been fixed yet, so maybe we have to make a bigger effort to fix it. |
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> Thank you, |
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> Rafael Fernández López. |
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Thomas E. Dickey |
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