Re: Ncurses 5.9 -> 6.0 - libform

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:30:19PM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> (I know this is probably getting filed under "not enough information", or
> "hey thats a really old version you have there", but just on the
> offchance someone might have some pointers...)
> 
> I've got an application that's been working for years, and a client has
> just tried using it on Centos8 and a particular command (a "prompt")
> doesnt work..
> 
> In the app - i open a form with a label and a field, get them to type in a
> value and return it.
> Centos comes with ncurses 6.2, I also tried 6.0 and it also breaks, but
> ncurses 5.9 on the same machine works fine.
> 
> So - does anyone have any ideas on why fields might not be displaying on
> 6.0, when it worked fine on 5.9, or have any ideas of what I can do to
> troubleshoot?

not offhand (that's several years).  I don't recall any particular
changes in the form library, but a quick diff shows that about 10%
of the source changed since 5.9 (a lot of that would be cosmetic,
but still...)

If it's something that I could test, I could look into it.

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