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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Subject: Re: Package for simple form
Date: 2000/08/20
Date: 2000-08-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8np2gm$9pb$2@news1.Radix.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8nmssq$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu

David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2000 15:34:20 GMT, Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
>>> There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
>>> Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
>>>  which I was unable to fix at the time.
>>
>>I don't recall your bug report (was there one?).

> Sorry, there wasn't one. I got the (apparently mistaken) impression that
> the Ada code wasn't maintained, so I decided not to send a bug report unless
> I could send a patch with it. Since this was ncurses 4.2, it's probably
> been fixed.

I don't recall the details, but both the c++ and Ada95 bindings ran into
compiler-dependent things that had to be fixed between 4.2/5.0 (and with
the Ada95, I do recall that some of the fixes weren't backward-compatible,
so 5.1 doesn't for instance support gnat 3.10).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@radix.net> <dickey@herndon4.his.com>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com




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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-18  0:00 Package for simple form dvdeug
2000-08-18  0:00 ` Thomas Dickey
2000-08-19  0:00   ` David Starner
2000-08-20  0:00     ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2000-08-18  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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2000-08-18  0:00 Matthias Teege
2000-08-18  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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