Re: ncurses on x86-interix

[Markus Duft]

On 05/25/11 22:58, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Markus Duft wrote:
> 
>> Hey!
>>
>> I did some porting of ncurses to interix (Microsoft's POSIX layer upon the 
>> Windows kernel). I'd love to see this patch go upstream. Currently i'm 
>> maintaining it in the gentoo prefix repository [1], where it has been 
>> thoroughly tested (by me and others) over the last few years.
>>
>> Any comments on the patch?
> 
> It looks okay.  I haven't investigated SFU for a while (I had a workable 
> copy, on a older/defunct machine, but recall some problem getting the install 
> to work on Windows/XP).

Cool, would you commit it?

Yeah, SFU (now SUA) has come a long way since then. Sad enough it hasn't gotten 
that much better after all, but still... it's usable enough to bootstrap 
something really usable (gentoo prefix in my case [1] :)).

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/

Thanks, Markus

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