[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] ncurses vs ncursesw

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:40:37PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> I'll try to get opinions about this.
> 
> Since we're in the middle of packages migration, maybe it's an interesting
> opportunity to try to use ncursesw and drop ncurses.
> 
> ncursesw is ncurses + Unicode (UTF8) support
> 
> Both libraries built out of the same source base, and they're just 2 build
> variants.
> From what I can see, Midnight Commander may have some problems building
> with libncursesw, but I think those could be resolved.
> 
> python + python3 pick up libncursesw if they find it, but they could be
> configured to take libncurses
> no idea about impact on other libs, hence this RFC
> 
> in the openwrt/packages folder there are only these libs that reference
> libncurses:
> - deve/gdb
> - utils/util-linux
> - network/utils/iftop
> - network/services/samba36

There are a lot more in the package feed on https://github.com/openwrt/packages

Interestingly, utils/zsh depends both on libncurses and libncursesw.
Also, sound/mocp can use one or the other: "+PACKAGE_libncursesw:libncursesw +!PACKAGE_libncursesw:libncurses"

Here is the list of packages in the main feed depending on libncurses:

- admin/htop
- lang/erlang
- lang/ruby
- libs/liboping
- libs/postgresql
- libs/sqlite3
- libs/unixodbc
- net/bmon
- net/horst
- net/irssi
- net/kismet
- net/krb5
- net/lftp
- net/mtr
- net/ocserv
- net/wavemon
- sound/lame
- sound/mocp
- utils/alsa-utils
- utils/bash
- utils/gnupg
- utils/lvm2
- utils/mc
- utils/minicom
- utils/mysql
- utils/nano
- utils/opensc
- utils/screen
- utils/tcsh
- utils/tmux
- utils/zsh

> libncursesw is slightly fatter (360 kb) than libncurses (295 kb)
> Having both installed on a device seems redundant, even though together the
> bloat is not too big.
> 
> So, then, what would be some opinions/prefs ?
> 
> Thanks
> Alex

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