[Curses] Choose curses so library at startup (4/5)

Eric Pouech pouech-eric at wanadoo.fr
Sun Nov 30 09:23:32 CST 2003


> I would agree with you allmost any time. But (of cause there is a but) we
> are only using functions that was standard pre waaay old and I did
> actually spend some time looking for functions/types etc. and nothing has
> changed. As we are not touching internal stuff, allocating structs or
> termcap/terminfo etc. I am convinced that they are binary compatible (and
> I ran wine with some of the oldes curses lib I could find).

the point is not only at function prototype level, lost of curses 
functions are defined as macros, and this can change from implementation 
to implementation. Hence the .so / header peering and the rest...

A+
-- 
Eric Pouech




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