Re: libcurses problem
In comp.databases.informix Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > I'd like to know from where. Do you think i'm asking the right SuSE group? > I've never had a question answered on alt.os.linux.suse. Perhaps there's a > better one? generally I find newsgroup followups of little use (I use google to find related information, e.g., people asking questions about ncurses without getting useful replies - equating ncurses 4.2 and 5.2 is typical). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes: > In comp.databases.informix Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >> I'd like to know from where. Do you think i'm asking the right SuSE group? >> I've never had a question answered on alt.os.linux.suse. Perhaps there's a >> better one? > > generally I find newsgroup followups of little use (I use google to > find related information, e.g., people asking questions about ncurses > without getting useful replies - equating ncurses 4.2 and 5.2 is typical). Yes. There's a reason they bump up the major number of a shared library; but nobody seems to remember why, anymore... thus all the bad advice from seemingly well-intentioned people. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
In comp.databases.informix Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote: > Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes: >> In comp.databases.informix Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >>> I'd like to know from where. Do you think i'm asking the right SuSE group? >>> I've never had a question answered on alt.os.linux.suse. Perhaps there's a >>> better one? >> >> generally I find newsgroup followups of little use (I use google to >> find related information, e.g., people asking questions about ncurses >> without getting useful replies - equating ncurses 4.2 and 5.2 is typical). > Yes. There's a reason they bump up the major number of a shared > library; but nobody seems to remember why, anymore... thus all the > bad advice from seemingly well-intentioned people. I bumped it up because (a) there were some interface changes to match X/Open's changes from draft to release document. (b) I modified the struct that describes terminal entries to make it extensible (like termcap). (this is in the release notes for 5.0). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net