Re: [sup-talk] sup install error

[Rich Lane <rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu>]

Excerpts from Helge Titlestad's message of 2010-03-04 06:45:04 -0500:
> Excerpts from Rich Lane's message of Wed Mar 03 23:23:06 +0100 2010:
> > I'm thinking about changing the gem dependency from ncursesw back to
> > plain ncurses to avoid these install failures. Anyone have thoughts on
> > this?
> 
> If this breaks UTF-8 support more, I humbly vote against. UTF-8 with ncursesw
> might not be the perfect solution, but it seems to be the only solution at the
> moment, and anyone outside stricy ascii-writing countries will expect it to
> Just Work[tm].

I committed a patch to master that switches the gem dependency to plain
ncurses. I'd rather have all users be able to install than having utf8
support by default, especially when the way to enable utf8 is so easy -
gem install ncursesw. I've promoted the debug log about missing ncursesw
to an info log.
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