Re: Just got mc-4.6.0-pre1

[Miven Dooligan <dooligan intergate ca>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Option --with-terminfo is dead.  Everything else is default except
> --with-tm-x-support, and you can now see the default values in the output
> of "configure --help".
>
> > You brought up the terminfo/termcap issue, which has puzzled me for
> > quite a while.  A while back I was under the impression that termcap was
> > slowly being phased out in favor of the terminfo directory, and frankly
> > I've never even tried compiling with termcap.  Although, now I see that
> > I have a 705k termcap in /etc, I'll try it out...
>
> That's very interesting.  You seem to be under impression that termcap is
> not being phased out.  Your original understanding was correct, but what
> was the reason to doubt it?
Well, the comings and goings of linux can be confusing
at times.  You said that --with-terminfo was dead, and I
thought that you meant you weren't supporting it anymore,
but I guess you meant that it's the default.