[Bug 525146] Review Request: PDCurses - Public Domain curses library

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--- Comment #6 from Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net>  2009-09-24 08:39:18 EDT ---
So it would seem that PDCurses has major, major issues.  Not sure how I missed
the conflicts with ncurses-devel.  Odd.

Anyway, IMHO we have no need for another curses implementation in Fedora,
ncurses works wonderfully.  The only reason I've submitted this is that
asciiportal needs it.  Given the above, I see three courses of action.

1. Fix the above.  Yow.

2. Create an asciiportal package that bundles PDCurses.  Since asciiportal
builds against PDCurses statically (ick!) and I've not succeeded in getting it
to build dynamically yet, this may work.  While bundling libs is to be avoided
at all costs, I wonder about doing it when there's no intention of putting the
lib in Fedora.  Food for thought.

3. Port asciiportal to ncurses.  Paradoxically, this might be the least work,
if it's possbile. Haven't looked into it in any depth, however.


Any thoughts on these options?

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