terminfo vs termcap

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

OpenGroup docs [1] indicate that termcap(5) is deprecated in favour of 
terminfo(5). We seem to be the last player without terminfo as everyone 
else is using ncurses or equivalent. There also seems to be some 
resistance about importing ncurses into base ...

So I looked into what we have, and I think we can do quite a bit by 
providing libterminfo to read the terminfo db's and provide termcap 
compat functions and a basic tic compiler to convert termcap(5) and 
terminfo(5) sources into terminfo.dbs. curses(3) would have to be 
re-tooled around libterminfo of course.

Would this meet any resistance, or should I write some code?

Thanks

Roy