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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <rmtmjs$kck$1%ciao.gmane.io@localhost>,
Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
>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?

There is the benefit keeping the whole history though if we import it
as is and then work on a branch.

christos