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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: 50444@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: paul eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#50444: Remove support for the curses library
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 02:28:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkTRZFiaSFz1d+fKiVwKWdP-AC8g87D4YngiAo4wraMNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

Building with curses is, according to Paul Eggert:

    "Completely broken" in the sense it won't link and Emacs won't build,
    yes. (It will link in master, due to a patch I installed recently.)

    And yes, the original curses library has been obsolete for at least two
    decades.

See the discussion here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg00416.html

The conclusion from that thread AFAIU is that support for curses
should be removed.  (We should keep ncurses though.)





             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07  0:28 Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-07  6:03 ` bug#50444: Remove support for the curses library Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07  6:41   ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07  6:44     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08  3:28   ` Richard Stallman

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