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

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

Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

In that case it needs to be fetched out from the src's attic.  The
othersrc copy was re-imported, not repo-copied.

(For the record, I'm still not convinced it makes much sense to try to
bring it back.)

-uwe