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Re: curses: create panel from stdscr?



On 11/8/2017 11:18 AM, Valery Ushakov wrote:
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:47:17 +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:09:06PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

This does leave us in the invidious position of our correctness
being interpreted as bugs because we don't do what ncurses
does....it is a constant, losing, battle.
[...]
It is wrong and a pain but ncurses has the larger market share so
whatever we do different is considered a but so we may as well just suck
it up and make our libpanel have the same brokenness.

Shouldn't we just cvs rm our curses then?

No.

There are cases where ncurses deviates from the standard and also from it's own man pages - so which is the source of truth here?

Roy


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