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Re: [sup-talk] xapian-full and ncursesw gems



Rich Lane, 2009-12-29 01:12:
> ncursesw: This is a version of the ncurses gem modified to link
> against the ncursesw library so you get wide character support.

Rich rocks!  \o/

> The only thing I worry about here is users lacking the full
> toolchain required to build Xapian.

Doesn't sound bad to me.  How tough a requirement "full toolchain
required to build Xapian" really is?  What platforms would be
problematic?

> I've kept source compatibility with the old ncurses gem by not
> renaming the files/module. This means they interact badly if both
> are installed. Thoughts?

If you say "don't you dare to require both ncurses and ncursesw" in
README and make ncursesw complain if ncurses is already required I'd
say it's as good a gem-citizen as it gets.  Then just (as William
already said) make sup try ncursesw first and fall back to ncurses if
it fails.

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