Bug #8584: Remove curses

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 2.1.0
• ruby -v: 2.1.0dev
• Backport: 1.9.3: DONTNEED, 2.0.0: DONTNEED

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

I'd like to remove curses from the Ruby standard library.

I believe the standard library should get as small as possible, and I can't find any reason to have curses except for a compatibility reason. And Ruby has RubyGems now, so it's enough to have curses.gem for compatibility.

I've created a repository for curses.gem.

https://github.com/shugo/curses

I'm not a user of curses now, so it would be great if someone can take over it.

Can I remove curses from Ruby 2.1?

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

I would not mind being a maintainer of a curses gem.

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

drbrain (Eric Hodel) wrote:

I would not mind being a maintainer of a curses gem.

Thank you!

It might be better to move from https://github.com/shugo/curses to https://github.com/ruby/curses.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Assignee changed from matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) to naruse (Yui NARUSE)

I agreed to remove curses from Ruby 2.1 and create github.com/ruby/curses

naruse
How do you think about this?

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

\o/

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

(Sidenote, not related to this, but all of ruby's stdlib should become as modular as possible, so users could toggle on/off what components of ruby they want to have included, perhaps with rubygems able to allow for this. "gem uninstall webrick" for instance if a user really won't need that, and so forth.)

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

• Assignee changed from naruse (Yui NARUSE) to shugo (Shugo Maeda)

I talked with Naruse-san, and we've decided to remove curses from 2.1.

Eric, could you take over the maintenance of curses gem and upload it to rubygems.org as soon as possible?

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote:

Eric, could you take over the maintenance of curses gem and upload it to rubygems.org as soon as possible?

If you'd like to use https://github.com/ruby/curses, please contact Shibata-san (hsbt).

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

Ok, I will publish the curses gem this week.

hsbt, can you create github.com/ruby/curses? Please leave it unitialized so I can fork shugo/curses into it.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Assignee changed from shugo (Shugo Maeda) to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

I created https://github.com/ruby/curses and added commit bit to you.

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

Removed by r44089.

[zzak (zzak _)]

I would also like to offer help maintaining curses

[matsuda (Akira Matsuda)]

• File rm_curses_gomi.patch rm_curses_gomi.patch added

@shugo (Shugo Maeda) Attached is a patch that sweeps remaining documentation references to curses here and there. Can I commit this?

[zzak (zzak _)]

@a_matsuda +1 please commit it

[matsuda (Akira Matsuda)]

Committed as r44121

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100
• Backport changed from 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN to 1.9.3: DONTNEED, 2.0.0: DONTNEED