Re: [gnugo-devel] Bug 152

[Joseph Piche]

> Notice that this patch removes support for using ncurses to provide
> color capabilities (for colored debug displays) and leaves that to using
>   ANSI color escape codes. It would be nice to get rid of a dependency
> but I'm afraid the use of ncurses was introduced for a reason. Can
> anybody remember why ncurses was needed, or did it just precede the
> introduction of ANSI color escape codes?

I don't see any other code that currently relies on ncurses. But since
you were hesitant to remove the dependancy, I broke down and finally
learned how ncurses and terminfo works. So, there is better patch at

http://trac.gnugo.org/gnugo/attachment/ticket/152/fix-terminfo.patch

And after finally studying it, ncurses probably is the way to go,
since it will work on odd terminals that use strange color codes.