Re: Proposal to import window(1) into the base

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

> If it comes back, it needs to be modified to use curses - the hardcoded
> terminal escapes for a bunch of 1970s terminals is kinda cute in a retro
> way; it's also kinda embarassing.

From a very quick look half of window sources (tt* and ww* files) are
its homebrew curses replacement.  If we are going to throw that out
and switch to curses I'd expect quite a bit of initial rototill and
instability (and don't forget whatever bugs that are hiding in our
curses :) Doing that work when it's already re-imported to src and
enabled would be quite a bit of churn.  Can that be done outside of
src first, in othersrc or whereever?

-uwe