Subject: Re: creation of ?
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@nyc.deshaw.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/13/1997 13:27:08
In article <199710130830.SAA17821@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> lm@cs.rmit.edu.au writes:
>greetings,
>    whilst i was WARNSifying various parts of the tree, I noticed
>that the termcap(3) functions (-ltermcap) are defined in <curses.h>
>(even though the manual page doesn't document this)
>
>this is suboptimal because there are lots of other definitions in
><curses.h> which aren't related to the termcap(3) functions which
>cause conflicts with non-curses using programs.
>
>mrg and i discussed this, and feel that we should do the following:
>	* create <termcap.h> with the stuff from termcap(3)
>	* change <curses.h> to include <termcap.h> instead of
>	  defining the termcap(3) stuff
>	* modify the programs in the tree that currently just use
>	  the termcap(3) stuff (and not the <curses.h> stuff),
>	  and probably privately define the stuff in termcap(3),
>	  to include <termcap.h> instead...
>
>objections? otherwise i'll do this in the next day or so.

just move src/lib/libedit/termcap.h src/lib/libterm...

christos