Ruby Issue Tracking System

07/20/2013

08:41 PM Ruby Bug #8659: Curses::Window#bkgdset does not handle color correctly

agree: not just ncurses, but any implementation of SVr4 or X/Open curses will use >8 bits for chtype.
8-bit values were for BSD-curses, which is rarely used (essentially only for antique programs). ThomasDickey (Thomas dickey)

07/29/2012

07:43 PM Ruby Feature #6735: curses: support linking against pdcurses

I cannot account for the developer's failure to compile ncurses, since he's
never provided a bug report. However, it's trivial to cross-compile, so
perhaps some progress might be made in that area. I've put a zip-file with
current c... ThomasDickey (Thomas dickey)

07/16/2012

09:54 AM Ruby Feature #6735: curses: support linking against pdcurses

Actually the page on gnu.org is a copy (with some minor changes) of the file on my site.
I see that my faq didn't provide a link to the 5.8 release where MinGW was listed -
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-5.8.html
and y... ThomasDickey (Thomas dickey)

07/15/2012

07:44 PM Ruby Feature #6735: curses: support linking against pdcurses

Actually, ncurses is "available" for Windows in the sense that it builds and
works there, using MinGW.
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#other_versions
But there are no downloads of binaries (unlike end-user prog... ThomasDickey (Thomas dickey)