Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw32-ncurses packages for review.

[Erwin W. <wat...@xs...>]

Earnie Boyd schreef, Op 13-8-2012 18:24:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> Erwin Waterlander schreef op 2012-08-07 22:52:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I created mingw32 packages for ncurses 5.9 with mgwport. See
>>> http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/mingw/ncurses/
>>>
>>> Please review and let me know your comments.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If there are no further comments then I start uploading the files under
>> MinGW/Contributed in a few days.
> I'm getting errors from tar on the terminfo file.

Hi,

Thanks for noticing. I rebuild the packages. I had to change 
src_install() in the mgwport script. The terminfo package is now correct.

>
> Does that file really exhibit the same version as ncurses?

Yes.

>   Does ncurses source distribute it or was it a separate download?

It is included in the ncurses distribution. I have to package it, 
because it is installed, and if I don't package it mgwport will fail.

>   If
> ncurses distributes it, the file should be named as such and if it is
> terminfo distribution we should have a separate package named
> terminfo.
>

I took cygwin as an example. In cygwin they also name the package 
"terminfo".  With cygwin's setup.exe you can install terminfo 
separately, but that doesn't say anything, because you can install any 
sub-package individually with Cygwin's setup.exe.

If we want to have terminfo available as a separate package than that is 
just a matter of making a separate XML file, right? And make the ncurses 
package depend on terminfo.

Note that in the future, when ncursesw is ready for mingw32, we get a 
duplicate terminfo package. (ncurses and ncursesw are separate 
packages). So perhaps it is a good idea to make a separate xml file for 
terminfo. Agree?


>   Also, rather than the redundant -terminfo sub-package name
> IMO it should be -data.

You are right. I changed it.

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/