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diff --git a/announce.html.in b/announce.html.in index e385204..a07dc05 100644 --- a/announce.html.in +++ b/announce.html.in @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- - $Id: announce.html.in,v 1.85 2011/04/04 00:05:34 tom Exp $ + $Id: announce.html.in,v 1.89 2013/05/18 10:12:25 tom Exp $ **************************************************************************** - * Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * + * Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -29,11 +28,12 @@ * authorization. * **************************************************************************** --> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content= - "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org"> + "HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org"> <title>Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org"> @@ -42,12 +42,13 @@ </head> <body> - <h1>Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</h1>The ncurses (new curses) - library is a free software emulation of curses in System V - Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and - color and multiple highlights and forms characters and - function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses - enhancements over BSD curses. + <h1>Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</h1> + + <p>The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation + of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo + format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms + characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other + SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses.</p> <p>In mid-June 1995, the maintainer of 4.4BSD curses declared that he considered 4.4BSD curses obsolete, and encouraged the @@ -73,38 +74,50 @@ It is also available at <a href= "ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/">ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/</a> .</p> - <h1>Release Notes</h1>This release is designed to be upward - compatible from ncurses 5.0 through 5.8; very few applications - will require recompilation, depending on the platform. These are - the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release. - <p> - This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent problems - in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release. - <p> - It also improves the Ada95 binding: + <h1>Release Notes</h1> + + <p>This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses + 5.0 through 5.8; very few applications will require + recompilation, depending on the platform. These are the + highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.</p> + + <p>This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent + problems in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release.</p> + + <p>It also improves the Ada95 binding:</p> + <ul> - <li>fixes a longstanding portability problem with its use of the - <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/form_fieldtype.3x">set_field_type</a> - function. Because that function uses variable-length argument lists, - its interface with gnat does not work with certain platforms. - <li>improves configurability and portability, particularly when built - separately from the main ncurses tree. The 5.8 release introduced - scripts which can be used to construct separate tarballs for the - Ada95 and ncurses examples. - <p>Those were a proof of concept. For the 5.9 release, those - scripts are augmented with rpm- and dpkg-scripts used in test builds - against a variety of gnat- and system ncurses versions as old as - gnat 3.15 and ncurses 5.4 (see snapshots and systems tested - <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html">here</a>. - <li>additional improvements were made for portability of the - ncurses examples, adding rpm- and dpkg-scripts for test-builds. - See - <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html">this page</a> - for snapshots and other information. + <li>fixes a longstanding portability problem with its use of + the <a href= + "http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/form_fieldtype.3x">set_field_type</a> + function. Because that function uses variable-length argument + lists, its interface with gnat does not work with certain + platforms.</li> + + <li>improves configurability and portability, particularly when + built separately from the main ncurses tree. The 5.8 release + introduced scripts which can be used to construct separate + tarballs for the Ada95 and ncurses examples. + + <p>Those were a proof of concept. For the 5.9 release, those + scripts are augmented with rpm- and dpkg-scripts used in test + builds against a variety of gnat- and system ncurses versions + as old as gnat 3.15 and ncurses 5.4 (see snapshots and + systems tested <a href= + "http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html">here</a>.</p> + </li> + + <li>additional improvements were made for portability of the + ncurses examples, adding rpm- and dpkg-scripts for test-builds. + See <a href= + "http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html">this + page</a> for snapshots and other information.</li> </ul> - <h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>The ncurses package is fully - compatible with SVr4 (System V Release 4) curses: + <h1>Features of Ncurses</h1> + + <p>The ncurses package is fully compatible with SVr4 (System V + Release 4) curses:</p> <ul> <li>All 257 of the SVr4 calls have been implemented (and are @@ -132,8 +145,10 @@ entries for use with less capable <strong>curses</strong>/<strong>terminfo</strong> versions such as the HP/UX and AIX ports.</li> - </ul>The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over - SVr4: + </ul> + + <p>The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over + SVr4:</p> <ul> <li>The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the @@ -249,12 +264,14 @@ interface.</li> </ul> - <h1>State of the Package</h1>Numerous bugs present in earlier - versions have been fixed; the library is far more reliable than - it used to be. Bounds checking in many `dangerous' entry points - has been improved. The code is now type-safe according to gcc - -Wall. The library has been checked for malloc leaks and arena - corruption by the Purify memory-allocation tester. + <h1>State of the Package</h1> + + <p>Numerous bugs present in earlier versions have been fixed; the + library is far more reliable than it used to be. Bounds checking + in many `dangerous' entry points has been improved. The code is + now type-safe according to gcc -Wall. The library has been + checked for malloc leaks and arena corruption by the Purify + memory-allocation tester.</p> <p>The ncurses code has been tested with a wide variety of applications including (versions starting with those noted):</p> @@ -321,8 +338,10 @@ <dd>newsreader, supporting color, MIME <a href= "http://www.tin.org/">http://www.tin.org/</a></dd> - </dl>as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support - alone: + </dl> + + <p>as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support + alone:</p> <dl> <dt>minicom</dt> @@ -341,15 +360,17 @@ <p>The ncurses distribution includes a selection of test programs (including a few games).</p> - <h2>Who's Who and What's What</h2>Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from - a previous package pcurses, written by Pavel Curtis. Eric S. - Raymond continued development. Jürgen Pfeifer wrote most of - the form and menu libraries. Ongoing work is being done by - <a href="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</a>. - Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software - Foundation, which holds the copyright on ncurses. Contact the - current maintainers at <a href= - "mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</a>. + <h2>Who's Who and What's What</h2> + + <p>Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from a previous package pcurses, + written by Pavel Curtis. Eric S. Raymond continued development. + Jürgen Pfeifer wrote most of the form and menu libraries. + Ongoing work is being done by <a href= + "mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</a>. Thomas + Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, + which holds the copyright on ncurses. Contact the current + maintainers at <a href= + "mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</a>.</p> <p>To join the ncurses mailing list, please write email to <code>bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org</code> containing the line:</p> @@ -364,6 +385,13 @@ are made available at <a href= "ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/">ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/</a> .</p> + <p>There is an archive of the mailing list here:</p> + + <p><a href= + "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses</a> + (also <a href= + "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses">https</a>)</p> + <h2>Future Plans</h2> <ul> @@ -371,15 +399,19 @@ support.</li> <li>Ports to more systems, including DOS and Windows.</li> - </ul>We need people to help with these projects. If you are - interested in working on them, please join the ncurses list. + </ul> + + <p>We need people to help with these projects. If you are + interested in working on them, please join the ncurses list.</p> + + <h2>Other Related Resources</h2> - <h2>Other Related Resources</h2>The distribution provides a newer - version of the terminfo-format terminal description file once - maintained by <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/">Eric + <p>The distribution provides a newer version of the + terminfo-format terminal description file once maintained by + <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/">Eric Raymond</a> . Unlike the older version, the termcap and terminfo data are provided in the same file, and provides several - user-definable extensions beyond the X/Open specification. + user-definable extensions beyond the X/Open specification.</p> <p>You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics not covered in the terminfo file at <a href= |