pkgsrc changes:
- Add license definition
Upstream changes:
New in 1.28 (Released January 27, 2010)
Disable Curses::Var::STORE. It doesn't work (doesn't even compile) with
newer Ncurses (due to updates to make Ncurses reentrant). One can
re-enable it by defining ALLOW_VARS_STORE in c-config.h.
Improve "not provided by your vendor" message.
Pkgsrc changes:
o Remove the now-redundant cleanup of Curses.i and Curses.s
before configuring.
Upstream changes:
New in 1.27 (Released January 20, 2009)
Extraneous .i and .s files in 1.26 removed. 'make clean' cleans all
.i and .s too.
'gen' directory is replaced by gen.tar file, so CPAN doesn't index
the stuff in there. That directory is stuff for developing the Curses
package, not stuff for users.
Pkgsrc changes:
o Add commands to remove leftover Curses.i and Curses.s from distribution
Upstream changes:
New in 1.26 (Released January 3, 2009)
newterm() is available and putwin() and getwin() work in newer Perl (with
PerlIO). We now use PerlIO_findFile().
1.25 doesn't exist (The name got burned in a CPAN upload mistake).
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.8.8 -> 5.10.0.
The list of packages is computed by finding all packages which end
up having either of PERL5_USE_PACKLIST, BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.perl,
or PERL5_PACKLIST defined in their make setup (tested via
"make show-vars VARNAMES=...").
Pkgsrc changes:
o Remove a redundant WRKSRC setting
o Remove no longer needed patch-aa
Upstream changes:
New in 1.24 (Released September 10, 2008)
Export KEY_RESIZE, KEY_EVENT.
For Netbsd, allow both Netbsd and BSD guesses via CURSES_LIBTYPE,
and default to Ncurses. Used to guess only BSD. From Ulrich Habel
rhaen@NetBSD.org .
Add guess capability for Dragonfly. From Ulrich Habel
rhaen@NetBSD.org .
- send patch-aa to upstream (so that they can include it - hopefully)
The Curses Perl module was created by William Setzer (William_Setzer
at ncsu.edu) in 1994. William maintained it up until July 2001, when he
stopped having time to do so.
In September 2004, Bryan Henderson (bryanh@giraffe-data.com) took over
maintainership of it, after confirming with William that he did not
plan to continue.
The module has always been distributed via CPAN.
Curses itself is much older than the Perl implementation. Curses was
originally only a C programming library.
New in 1.23 (Released March 9, 2008)
Fix crash of Makefile.PL on Windows.
New in 1.22 (Released February 29, 2008)
Nothing. Just a packaging fix.
New in 1.21 (Released February 15, 2008)
Don't undefine 'bool' macro in c-darwin hints file.
New in 1.20 (Released November 19, 2007)
Fix missing comment delimiter.
New in 1.19 (Released November 18, 2007)
Make it work on 5.005 again, using ppport.h (Devel::PPPort).
From Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de .
Fix uninitialized value in Makefile.PL on a system without BSD Curses or
Ncurses in a common place.
Reverse change to chgat() in 1.16. Make expected argument count 4.
There was never a 1.18 release; problems with PAUSE prevent using that
release number.
New in 1.17 (Released October 14, 2007)
Fix bug - can't find c-config.h on a system with ncursesw.
Make cdemo work on Windows.
Don't undefine SP macro with Pdcurses. (Otherwise it won't compile;
don't know why we used to undefine SP).
In Windows hints file, #include curses.h instead of pdcurses.h. It
seems to be called curses.h these days.
New in 1.16 (August 7, 2007)
Use Ncursesw (Ncurses with wide character functions) instead of
Ncurses if available.
Undefine "tab" macro, defined by Curses header file. It interferes
with perl.h.
Fix demo.form to use L! instead of J in the pack template that generates
the new_form() argument. Apparently, J is something from older Perl
and doesn't exist in current Perl.
Put some documentation of the library in comments in demo.form.
Use L! instead of I in the pack template in demo.menu.
Change SvPV(X,PL_na) to SvPV_nolen(X) to get with the times.
Change #!/usr/local/bin/perl to #! /usr/bin/perl .
Fix bug: chgat() requires an extra, meaningless, argument. Fix changes
expected argument count from 4 to 3.
New in 1.15 (October 8, 2006)
Add a simple load test 00-load.t.
Makefile.PL: use cdemo.obj instead of cdemo.o on Windows.
Makefile.PL: Guess ncurses/bsd based on what .h files exist.
Fix bug in Makefile.PL: doesn't use curses type in guess at c-config.h
(e.g. tries to use c-freebsd.h when it should use c-freebsd.bsd.h).
Change all sv_isa() to sv_derived_from() so you can use subclasses.
Thanks Leigh <leighbrown@hsbc.com>.
Rename default Darwin (Mac OS X) hints file (ca 2001) to c-darwin.old, and
the newer one ca 2004) to c-darwin.old so as to be the default. We're
guessing that the newer one applies to more systems today.
New in 1.14 (June 3, 2006)
Make demo.form work on 64 bit machine.
Add some narration to Makefile.PL to help with diagnosis.
Move undef of 'instr' from individual hint files to Curses.c and add
explanation.
Use perl -w instead of 'use warnings' in Makefile.PL so it works with
older Perl.
New in 1.13 (October 10, 2005)
Fix so it builds on current Cygwin.
Some kind of build fix to get panels, forms, and menu functions to build.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
> New in 1.12 (March 17, 2005)
>
> Build bug fixed: panel, forms, menu libs not found in build.
>
> Build bug fixed: Curses.pm treats version as number, so 1.10 == 1.1 .
>
> New in 1.11 (March 12, 2005)
>
> Various cleanup and improved diagnostics in the build.
>
> New in 1.10 (March 11, 2005)
>
> Build bug fixed: Makefile has undefined variable $libtyp.
>
> Build bug fixed: Makefile computes wrong guess hint file name.
>
> New in 1.09 (March 6, 2005)
>
> - Makefile.PL searches for curses header files instead of assuming
> based on $OSNAME.
>
> - Makefile.PL warns user to reconfigure environment when form.h is
> in /usr/include rather than just add -I/usr/include to the compile
> (this concerns the problem with the conflicting Perl form.h file).
New in 1.08 (November 2004)
- perl.syms more verbose so you can diagnose failures.
- You can use environment variables instead of modifying Makefile.PL
to set your -I, -L, etc. options for the Curses libraries.
- c-linux.ncurses.h hints file includes ncurses.h, not curses.h.
- New c-darwin-thread-multi-2level.h hints file.
New in 1.07 (September 2004)
- Call to Perl_isa_sv() changed to isa_sv() because the former doesn't
work on some systems (causes a build failure).
New in 1.06 (July 2001)
o Now requires perl5.005 or better to run. (You can probably run it
in perl5.002-perl5.004 by grabbing newCONSTSUB out of the IO
distribution on CPAN and editing all uses of "foreach my $var" in
my perl scripts.)
o Did lots of fiddling with the file generation in an effort to make
it more comprehensible. In doing so, I moved around the way some
things were done and probably broke it on some systems with weird
compilers. Please let me know.
o changed the "Curses->new()" function to be a bit less clever.
o Support for libmenu! Many thanks to Yury Pshenichny <yura at zp.ua>
who did most of the actual work.
Update: Well, sort of support. For some reason beyond my ken, it
doesn't work with Solaris (2.6) libmenu. (The items won't attach to
the menu.) ncurses menu, both 1.9.9 and 5.2, seem to work fine.
o libform support added, too. Ho hum. ;) This one does appear to
work with Solaris libform.
o Added the following ncurses extension functions:
use_default_colors()
assume_default_colors()
define_key()
keybound()
keyok()
resizeterm()
(Thanks to neild at misago.org, hans at kolej.mff.cuni.cz)
o Re-enabled the functions:
attr_get()
attr_off()
attr_on()
attr_set()
o Between the functions supported and the functions listed in the
pod as not supported, those are all the ones I know about.
Got any more? Let me know.
o Fixed 64 bit issue with getch() and possibly others, truncating
returns of `chtype' to 32 bits. Note that this could possibly
break some OSes. Please let me know.
(Thanks to Randall.G.Steiner at bankofamerica.com)
o Fixed bug where @ARGV was always being cleared, and so no arguments
ever got to MakeMaker.
(Thanks to bdlow at nortelnetworks.com)
o Added hints for Darwin/Mac OS X system.
(Thanks to sdietrich at emlab.com)
o Added note to NETBSD users at the bottom of this README.
o Added a security notice to the README and pod.
(Thanks to connor at ing.umu.se)
o Has anyone successfully used the mouse event stuff?
pkgsrc:
MENUS and FORMS support not enabled because of compilation problems.
module directory has changed (eg. "darwin-2level" vs.
"darwin-thread-multi-2level").
binary packages of perl modules need to be distinguishable between
being built against threaded perl and unthreaded perl, so bump the
PKGREVISION of all perl module packages and introduce
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED for perl as perl>=5.8.5nb5 so the correct
dependencies are registered and the binary packages are distinct.
addresses PR pkg/28619 from H. Todd Fujinaka.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
curses.buildlink2.mk. This was wrong because we _really_ do want to
express that we want _n_curses when we include the buildlink2.mk file.
We should have a better way to say that the NetBSD curses doesn't
quite work well enough. In fact, it's far better to depend on ncurses
by default, and exceptionally note when it's okay to use NetBSD curses
for specific packages. We will look into this again in the future.
The automatic truncation in gensolpkg doesn't work for packages which
have the same package name for the first 5-6 chars.
e.g. amanda-server and amanda-client would be named amanda and amanda.
Now, we add a SVR4_PKGNAME and use amacl for amanda-client and amase for
amanda-server.
All svr4 packages also have a vendor tag, so we have to reserve some chars
for this tag, which is normaly 3 or 4 chars. Thats why we can only use 6
or 5 chars for SVR4_PKGNAME. I used 5 for all the packages, to give the
vendor tag enough room.
All p5-* packages and a few other packages have now a SVR4_PKGNAME.
o Added the missing support functions c_chstrlen, c_Screen2sv.
Oops. :)
o Updated DIAGNOSTICS section of pod.
o Added typedef detection support.
o Rearranged PANELS support a little.
o Removed support for wattr_get, wattr_off, wattr_on, and
wattr_set (for now). I got the prototypes from ncurses-1.9.9g,
but they apparently differ from the "standard" ones.
o Renamed "lines" everywhere, 'cause some curses library writer
was stupid enough to #define it. (Go figure.)
o Reworked "optional" arguments, which only affects newterm(),
panel_above() and panel_below(). Now, if you want to specify
"NULL" as an argument, use "undef" instead of omitting the
argument. (Don't worry if this doesn't make sense. You
probably aren't affected anyway.)
o Added the ncurses "curs_mouse" functions, but I have no idea
if they work. I couldn't even get the C versions to work, so
I had no way of testing them. Feedback on these functions
would be appreciated.
ones to do, and each compiled and installed/de-installed apparently
correctly.
As a side effect of the dynamic PLIST, we no longer need to have separate
-static and -shared PLISTs. It's now easier than ever to make a perl5
package for NetBSD :)
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
