Updated: dialog/libdialog-devel/15 1.3+20260107 - Curses widget-based script interpreter

Cygwin Dialog Maintainer Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sun Jan 18 07:56:43 GMT 2026


A script interpreter which provides a set of curses widgets:
objects whose appearance and behavior can be customized.

For more information see the project home page:

	https://invisible-island.net/dialog

Although this package is used in all *texlive* installations,
the changes and impacts appear to be minor, so the upgrade is
being released as current stable.

The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

- dialog		1.3+20260107
- libdialog-devel	1.3+20260107
- libdialog15		1.3+20260107

For changes since the previous Cygwin release, see below or after
installation read /usr/share/doc/dialog/CHANGES:

	https://invisible-island.net/dialog/CHANGES.html


1.3	20260107

- modify package/debian/* to work with Debian 13+
- modify run_test.sh to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in case "make check" is
  used on a system where dialog's shared library was not installed
- improve gen-pkgconfig.in by widening the filter for "-z" options
- improve layout of menu and checklist/radiolist widgets
- add a limit-check in the tailbox widget
- correct length of input-fields in form widget



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