Re: Add curses_version() in curses(3)

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

On 29/08/2019 14:27, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 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/.

New patch.

Cannot get version.c to depend on sys/sys/param.h for love nor money.
Can't get .PATH or .PHONY to work :/
Ideas on a postcard to fix that.

Roy