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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jérôme,

"Jérôme Duval" <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2007/11/6, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > as some may have noticed when using telnet or ftp, our ncurses
> > dumps
> > some warnings about name collisions to the Terminal.
> > Those are apparently bugs in our termcap file - I've fixed them
> > locally. But after that, the whole termcap file is parsed, and it
> > chokes on several other entries. Does anyone mind if I remove the
> > "old
> > terminal" section from our termcap file? This would fix all errors,
> > at
> > least, I don't see the need to keep entries that were already
> > outdated
> > in 1995.
> Why don't we switch ncurses to terminfo ?
> http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/libs/ncurses/include/ncurses_cfg.h?rev=19675&view=diff&r1=19675&r2=19674&p1=haiku/trunk/src/libs/ncurses/include/ncurses_cfg.h&p2=/haiku/trunk/src/libs/ncurses/include/ncurses_cfg.h
> trunk/src/libs/ncurses/include/ncurses_cfg.h&p2=/haiku/trunk/src/libs/
ncurses/include/ncurses_cfg.h>

We currently don't add any terminfo files on our image. Of course we
could change this, but since we cannot get rid of termcap completely,
anyway, we can as well put it use; I don't think adding terminfo files
would add much value for us.

Bye,
   Axel.