Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #4601, comment 5


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  • Ticket #4601, comment 5

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    2525The problem is that once slang is removed, people will be forced to use curses, and that will open a floodgate of bug reports that I wouldn't know how to deal with. 
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    27 I'm not quite sure how slang got added in the first place, probably something to do with the troubled history of curses, Unicode support, and new features. But for me, curses have the huge advantage of being literally everywhere. Just a few weeks ago, I did a port to AIX, and guess what? Even if the operation is degraded due to older curses, that's perfectly fine. Most will get the oldest ones anyway. 
     27I'm not quite sure how slang got added in the first place, probably something to do with the troubled history of curses, Unicode support, and new features. But for me, curses have the huge advantage of being literally everywhere. Just a few weeks ago, I did a port to AIX, and guess what? Even if the operation is degraded due to older curses, that's perfectly fine. Most will get the newest ones anyway. 
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    2929So if we are NOT going to implement our own library and continue to use an external one, I don't think there is a better option than curses that meets our needs in terms of availability. I have nothing against notcurses per se, but any dependency I don't have to port to Solaris or AIX or HP-UX is a win.