Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org> writes:

Eric S. Raymond writes:

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OK. Then what I guess I'd like is for a maintained equivalent of this to join the core -- the ncurses module you referred to, for choice.

See the "Whither cursesmodule" thread in the python-dev archives: http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-February/003796.html

One possibility was to blow off backward compatibility; are there any systems that only have BSD curses, not SysV curses / ncurses? Given that Pavel Curtis announced he was dropping BSD curses maintainance some years ago, I expect even the *BSDs use ncurses these days.

Yes, they do. ls /usr/src/lib/libncurses/ Makefile ncurses_cfg.h pathnames.h termcap.c grep 5\.0 /usr/src/contrib/ncurses/* <Shows the source tree contains ncurses 5.0> At least, this is FreeBSD. So there is no need for BSD curses anymore, on FreeBSD's account.

--amk