terminfo [Re: console enhancements: mouse events etc]

[Thomas Wolff]

>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I just remember again that I though I should change the
>>>>> terminfo entry too. Just - where's the source to patch?
>>>>>
>>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/terminfo/terminfo-5.7_20091114-13-src.tar.bz2 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That -src package is basically just a wrapper around terminfo.src from
>>>> ncurses-5.7 (as of patch level 20091114).  So, the ultimate upstream
>>>> source is actually ncurses.  But I split it out specifically so 
>>>> that we
>>>> could do faster updates of terminfo (rebuilding all of ncurses 
>>>> simply to
>>>> change two characters in /usr/share/terminfo/[63|c]/cygwin is 
>>>> rather silly).
>>>>
>>>> So, send me patches against terminfo.src from that -src tarball, and
>>>> once we've got it figured out, I'll push it upstream to the ncurses
>>>> maintainer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sorry for the slightly late response. Attached is a small patch.
>> Wrong mailing list.
>>
> Really? I thought it was a patch, even if to go upstream. And Charles 
> had requested it on that list.
> No I wonder whether this is the right one...
> Thomas
Ah, I see, sorry, another comment, those two lists are for cgwin dll 
only. However, the patch should have been attached with my cygwin dll 
patch in the first place, to be more proper, so I thought... and still 
Charles had requested it there...
Thomas

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