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Re: Add curses_version() in curses(3)



On 29.08.2019 15:23, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 29/08/2019 14:19, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> In my opinion artificial versioning (1.0.0) of native code adds no
>> interesting information and adds burden on us for superfluous versioning
>> model, orthogonal to __NetBSD_Version__.
> 
>> Adding extra versioning would make sense if we could maintain curses(3)
>> out of the NetBSD context.
> 
> Minix and Void Linux use NetBSD curses, so yes it does make sense.
> That does actually beg the question though - should we keep the version
> in sync with the NetBSD release where it lives?
> 

Minix uses just the NetBSD userland as it is. No need to do anything here.

For netbsd-curses, ported to Linux. It could be handled downstream
(probably appending a date of snapshot) if some other people would find
it useful.

But it's not our problem in src/.

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