Subj : ncurses
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Sep 12 2017 22:13:14

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> Now I begin to wonder if you must _only_ have wide ncurses
 NB> installed in order for golded's make option for WIDE_NCURSES=1 to
 NB> actually work as expected.

Interesting.  I may have to check that theory later although the previous build 
with the older ncurses was also WIDEC only with symlinks forcing the issue.

 NB> No need, really. I get it via CVS.

When was the last time they updated it?  20170303?  ;-)

 NB> you have an even better working ncurses!

Other than golded+, I haven't noticed any improvement with the few apps I have 
onboard that use/need it as a dependency.  Mind you I haven't rebuilt them all 
with the new ncurses development schtuff so there might be something there.

 NB> I'm fairly certain ArchlinuxARM uses a framebuffer

Yes it does.  I can confirm that.  However I had too many issues with the linux 
terminal and their supplied systemd to make a good judgement call but can say 
that a sysvinit system (slackwarearm) worked great even with a customized 64 
bit kernel that I built on a crosscompiler with the idea in mind of getting a 
native customized aarch64 working on the raspi3 I was playing with.  I think I 
wasn't too far from a stable one but I can't say with absolute certainty given 
what I saw on ArchlinuxARM's aarch64.

 NB> Well of course! Why change it up now? ;)

Especially after just under 20 years of doing fidonet this way.  Also I have 
been using vi since the late 1980's and have yet to find a better editor.  I 
got spoiled very early on.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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