On 28.2.2013 19:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2013 [email protected] wrote:
>> This patch replaces the old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs for
>> linking the ncurses menuconfig dialog by the use of the config scripts.
>> This results in the requirement of ncurses version 5.6 or newer for menuconfig.
>
> As you said, ncurses started bundling these files with ncurses-5.6,
> which was released in 2006.
>
> OTOH, RHEL4 is still a widely used distro, and was released in 2005,
> so is using an ncurses older than 5.6, so I'm afraid we can't drop
> the legacy code like that.
Yes, please keep support for older libraries if it does not require too
much effort.
Michal
Michal, All,
On Friday 01 March 2013 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 28.2.2013 19:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 February 2013 [email protected] wrote:
> >> This patch replaces the old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs for
> >> linking the ncurses menuconfig dialog by the use of the config scripts.
> >> This results in the requirement of ncurses version 5.6 or newer for menuconfig.
> >
> > OTOH, RHEL4 is still a widely used distro, and was released in 2005,
> > so is using an ncurses older than 5.6, so I'm afraid we can't drop
> > the legacy code like that.
>
> Yes, please keep support for older libraries if it does not require too
> much effort.
Yes, we want to keep support for old systems, indeed.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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