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.
