Re: ANN: ncurses-6.1-20190824

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 08:21:41PM +0200, Milan P. Stanić wrote:
...
> I am new to the ncurses and this mailing list and I have question about
> stable and development release. I would like to keep and update stable
> release for Alpine Linux (or to help current maintainer) to be in sane
> state.
> 
> I understand that the latest stable release is:
> https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
> and the patches for stable release are in:
> https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.1/

sure -

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#other_versions

but as noted in the FAQ, those patches are "development"

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#where_patches
 
> Also https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ looks like
> development releases.

Those are tarballs corresponding to the patches (some packagers don't
work with patches, and then some can't handle tarballs either :-)
 
> Is my guess correct or I'm wrong?
> 
> Or you can explain me how to use stable ncurses for linux distribution.

alpine already is using development versions of ncurses - seen here:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/blob/master/main/ncurses/APKBUILD

("stable" is a reference point, but bug-fixes are done in "development")
 
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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