On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx> writes:
In contrast, I can plug current ncurses libraries into a system that's
built with ncurses 5.0, and just assume it'll work. That's from 1999.
That's not a useful comparison. How many new features have been added to
ncurses in the last 6 years? Also, try compiling the 6 years old code
A lot more than autoconf. Run a diff and compare.
with a state-of-the-art compiler.
Again, works better than you're insinuating. (I maintain a set of test
libraries for lynx regression builds - back to ncurses 1.8.7 - and have
to periodically rebuild them due to ABI slippage in glibc ;-)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
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