Re: terminfo implementation

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:02:11AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about merging this into the tree? I think we  
> can add it as a new library and slowly move code over to using  
> libterminfo instead of libtermcap, although this does mean mainting two  
> different databases until completed as my libterminfo does not have any  
> libtermcap capabilities.

I think there's been significant difference of opinion about whether this
is a desirable thing to add to the tree, and that it should not be added
unless we either achieve at least rough consensus, or core decides they
want it.

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