Any plans to support netbsd-curses?

[beaglesnuf]

Static ncurses alone more than doubles the size of the binary. netbsd-curses might be a solution.

[JFreegman]

What are you using toxic on that a 4 MiB binary is too large?

[beaglesnuf]

Rather, it is not so much a space constraint than not having to require an external terminfo db as netbsd-curses has a (customizeable) built-in db for a closer-to-true-portable solution if toxic is built statically. Unrelated, but I needed to add -lsodium to LDFLAGS to build a static toxic (against both glibc and musl) on Debian, This was with pkg-config installed.

[JFreegman]

There are no plans to support netbsd-curses, but I'm open to reviewing pull requests.

Unrelated, but I needed to add -lsodium to LDFLAGS to build a static toxic (against both glibc and musl) on Debian, This was with pkg-config installed.

That shouldn't be necessary. Maybe @nurupo can chime in?

[nurupo]

I found it easier to invoke pkg-config with the --static flag instead of patching LDFLAGS directly. If you don't pass --static to it, it gives you output for shared/dynamic linking.

toxic/script/build-minimal-static-toxic.sh

Line 204 in 768617a

sed -i 's|pkg-config|pkg-config --static|' cfg/global_vars.mk

[clort81]

Terminfo and curses was designed to provide compatibility between 1970s-1980s hardware serial 'dumb' terminals, which used different commandsets to do common screen-manipulation things, like move cursor, erase line, etc.

There is no reason to use ncurses anymore, now that nobody is using anything but an ANSI-compatible virtual terminal. Just issue ansi codes directly for cursor positioning, clear screen, erase line, set color.

[JFreegman]

Terminfo and curses was designed to provide compatibility between 1970s-1980s hardware serial 'dumb' terminals, which used different commandsets to do common screen-manipulation things, like move cursor, erase line, etc.

There is no reason to use ncurses anymore, now that nobody is using anything but an ANSI-compatible virtual terminal. Just issue ansi codes directly for cursor positioning, clear screen, erase line, set color.

If you want to do this in a fork I'll gladly look it over

[clort81]

I really like this client. If i can get my brain together enough to learn the code I'll see what can be done for incremental de-cursing.

[theAkito]

@clort81 How's it going?