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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/ncurses/TO-DO')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/TO-DO b/contrib/ncurses/TO-DO index 6834e03..22acd0f 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/TO-DO +++ b/contrib/ncurses/TO-DO @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.48 2006/10/28 19:49:16 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.49 2007/02/03 16:29:17 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS: @@ -58,9 +58,6 @@ Known Problems: + The window classes defined in the c++ subdirectory need documentation. Some C++ programmer could earn a lot of good karma by doing this... -+ The resizeterm() function does not handle ripped-off lines such as that done - for the slk_XXX functions. - + vid_attr() should support the set_a_attributes (sgr1) string, but does not. There appear to be no terminals that require that functionality. @@ -75,19 +72,19 @@ Portability (or lack thereof): ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c . + In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h - interface for handling variadic argument lists. Linux doesn't have - varargs.h, it has the newer X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these - functions use stdargs instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless - you're building ncurses on a System V old enough to only have varargs.h. - (Solaris 2.5.1 uses the stdarg.h binding as well). + interface for handling variadic argument lists (and are deprecated by X/Open + for that reason). Linux doesn't have varargs.h, it has the newer + X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these functions use stdargs + instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building ncurses on + a System V old enough to only have varargs.h. (Solaris 2.5.1 used the + stdarg.h binding as well). + If you're using a BSD earlier than 4.4BSD, or a Linux old enough not to have a native vsscanf(3) in its library, vwscanw() will not work. You lose. (It should work on any System V, however). If you want to fix this, add an implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c. -+ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers, mainly with - configure script problems with vsscanf(). ++ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers. + terminfo.5 does not format with the SunOS (and most other platform's) tbl utility because it relies on a diversion for each table entry. Get the @@ -106,7 +103,7 @@ LONGER-TERM TO-DO ITEMS: 1. Extended COSE conformance -There is an XPG4 standard recently released which describes a superset +There is an XPG4 standard released in 1996 which describes a superset of the SVr4 API. The library is BASE conformant with this standard. We would like to make ncurses fully conformant at the EXTENDED level supporting internationalization. |
