Re: [Nano-devel] FW: Porting nano

[Chris Allegretta]

Anyone interested in a project to decouple nano from [n]curses?

This is not something I'm interested in right now given the number of
outstanding bugs and feature requests which are much smaller in scale
than a UI decoupling.  I'm not sure what else one could use for UIs on
a Unix workalike besides straight termcap, and my understanding is
that's pretty hard to use, which is why curses and associated programs
exist to begin with .

regarding libc, if there are GNU specifics nano is relying on that are
not in your Unix-like OS' libc, we can make autoconf check for them.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Pratik Mankawde(MT2012101)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey,
> I posted a mail to nano-devel mailing list but it rejected it. I need some
> help regarding porting nano. Please suggest correct means of talking to you
> guys.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Pratik Mankawde
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Pratik Mankawde(MT2012101) address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:43 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Porting nano
>
>
> Hey All,
> I am a student and want to port nano to HelenOS as my project. HelenOS do
> not have support for glibc, slang and ncurses as of now. To the extent I
> know slang provides facility of embedding itself in app. HelenOS do provide
> libc and posix library support to some extent. For porting available
> resources suggest to cross compile nano on helenos. We have cross compiler
> for helenos. My question is how can we cross compile nano to create a single
> standalone executable that can be executed in HelenOS environment without
> the need of any external library. What I need to know for that is how can
> nano be made independent of ncurses and how everything it needs be added to
> its source code repo. Moreover the architecture of console(shell) in helenos
> in not identical to unix/linux like environment so it would be very helpful
> if you can suggest any resources about nano's dependency on terminal and OS,
> which then I can resolve for helenos.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Pratik Mankawde