Re: Is there going to be a post-5.9 ncurses release in the near future?

[Fotis Georgatos]

Hi Thomas,

yes, thanks for the update!

Am I wrong to think that distros have not really caught up widely on following up the patch-dates?

IMHO, patch-dates appear as more of a developer thingy, rather than release thingy. 

Anyway, I wonder how you test ncurses across different distros/unices etc; 

what are your preferred test modes and expected coverage?

I'm asking this, to see to  see if we may copy good practices elsewhere...

cheers,

Fotis

On 28 April 2015 at 02:03, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:07:49PM +0100, Fotis Georgatos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In relation to C++ and ncurses, ref. (I'm not expert in this):
> https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/225#issuecomment-16603167
>
> is there going to be any release of the ncurses/5.9 or ncurses/5.A type?!

I am working toward that goal, yes.  I have at least one more iteration
on the configure/build-scripts after fixing some regressions from the
current phase (which is to get some better testing of packaged versions
of ncurses).

> I'm impartial to ncurses practices, however I am with the impression that
> many/most linux distros have been largely stuck to 5.9:
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ncurses&submit=Search+

Actually, "stuck" is what I'm working to address with the symbol versioning
and so forth.  But if you notice, those "5.9" packages have a variety of
patch-dates...

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