Re: symbol _tracecchar_t2 not defined

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 10:17:16AM -0400, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Thomas
> 
> Please don't answer this if you are not comfortable doing so, you might get
> flamed for endorsing one distro over another...

well, as I pointed out, it's Ubuntu's problem,
but I doubt it'll be fixed "soon".
 
> I run Trisquel Linux, an Ubuntu based distro. It's been good to me but I am
> already concerned about systemd and thinking about moving.
> 
> If Ubuntu has self inflicted ncurses bugs etc, what distro supports ncurses
> the best? I am willing to switch to BSD.

Debian's got the best track record, has provided the most bug reports across
my projects.  Red Hat's provided about 20% as many bug reports, and after
that's SuSE.  Those have provided useful feedback (bug reports and occasional
small fixes).

In ncurses...
the NEWS file mentions two bug reports from Ubuntu, ten years ago.

There are occasional reports by Ubuntu users, but I don't recall any
(positive, constructive) participation by its developers in _any_ of
my projects.

Without that, Ubuntu's not useful to me.

As far as I know, systemd's not going away (nor do I expect its developers
to improve their handling of terminal I/O - they're largely irrelevant to
this project since they tend to hardcode things).  Just to check

https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd

...no ncurses mentioned there.

For BSDs, there's similar comments: I tend to look at FreeBSD the most,
and after that, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

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