Re: [Cucumber-linux-development] The Build Process for Cucumber Linux 2.0

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Scott Court <sc...@cu...> wrote:
> Cons:
>
> Lack of features. NetBSD curses does not support all of the features of
> Ncurses. This means there will be some code breakage if we do make the
> switch, which will likely force us to create our own patches to get certain
> applications to work.

Some other distributions are using it, so there are already patches
available for some common packages that might need it.  Some packages
will work out of the box and be compatible.  I use pdcurses with SDL
backend (which can work with DirectFB) for some of the packages I
build.  Switching between different versions of curses wasn't hard for
the applications build from source and use.

Thought I'd throw it out as an interesting package option.  I'm going
to be experimenting with it in place of pdcurses for some of my Linux
based packages builds.

Sincerely,
Laura