freebsd stable - Jun 2006 - Updating ncurses in base

Hi,

[I'm also CC'ed peter@ since he is the maintainer of ncurses in base]

As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old
(it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest
version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the description,
goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL:

http://www.rafan.org/FreeBSD/ncurses/

I use the updated ncurses on my 7-CURRENT for sometime, everything
works well. As I note in that page, there are some issues related to building
framework of libncurses and related libraries. I hope there are some
experienced people here can show me which way is most likely to be
included in the base system.

In addition to those issues, I hope some of you can test it and feedback.
I really would like to see ncurses in base is updated in the near future.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

Unfortunately, I won't be able to test the newer curses
anytime soon...

But - I did report some years ago that c3270 doesn't build
with the current ncurses because of a name clash.  If someone
gets a chance, it might be a good idea to test that port
with the newer ncurses.

	- Thanks -
	- Dave Rivers -
> Hi,
> 
> [I'm also CC'ed peter@ since he is the maintainer of ncurses in
base]
> 
> As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old
> (it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest
> version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the
description,
> goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL: