gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/01/87)
jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) wrote: > I have a UNIX compatible termcap library for VMS. I someone is interested, > I can send (or post) it. Rather than having seventeen different curses and termcap libraries for seventeen different systems, is there somebody willing to maintain a single source that works on multiple systems? The *original* curses by Ken Arnold is freely available (it's copyright by Berkeley, but any use is allowed, and it contains no AT&T code). It's on the new Sun User Group tape, and I've encouraged him to submit it to comp.sources.unix. As was shown in the recent "curses for MSDOS" posting, the temptation is strong to add a bunch of features, which then makes programs that use that version incompatible with all the other versions. Having a single source would not only fix that, but would also mean that bug fixes and features only have to be done once to take effect on all systems. Also, having a copy of the merged version would suffice for whatever system you happen to have or move to. By the way, I'm not volunteering -- I'm already doing this job for a few other programs (PD tar, uuslave, and trying on uudecode). -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu My name's in the header where it belongs.
imtsft@imt3b2.UUCP (09/01/87)
Sounds like a good idea. I'll volunteer to maintain the 'multi-machine' versions if someone will forward or post the basic starting versions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ name : IMT (Group Administrator) email : ...(peregrine|ccicpg)!imt3b2!imtsft ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Paul Czarnik