Re: Uploads to chiark
On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> >I absolutely agree. Under Debian we use terminfo instead of termcap. Since
> >rpncalc seems to be the only package depending on libtermcap I think this
> >should be recompiled with ncurses. However, I think a libtermcap package is
> >usefule, too. In particular I like to be able to run binaries from other
> >machines/distributions. I would suggest to take out all development files
> >from libtermcap, that is libtermcap.a, termcap.h and the libtermcap.so link.
> >That way we have a shared library package useful for compatibility but it
> >cannot be used for development at all.
>
> Yes, I think we all need to remember that many people out there
> (most?) will need to run at least some applications from another
> distribution or commercial software (Matlab, for instance), and having
> libtermcap around may indeed be useful.
>
> I don't think distributing braindead packages is the way to go... If
> you want to remove libtermcap.a, termcap.h, etc needed to build
> packages, at least stick them in a -devel package...
>
Just to get my $.02 in. As the new maintainer for octave, I have yet to
make the conversion from termcap to ncurses (currently have a slew of
unsatisfied external references). I may be forced to return termcap to
the system just to get it to build. Although I don't want to return to
termcap, I would feel more comfortable if it were still there, at least
for a while.
Later,
Dwarf
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