From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Color functions missing from PDcurses
Date: 10 Feb 2003 10:12:45 GMT
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Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net> wrote:

> lots of linux code is written without consideration for portability
> (the same can be said for most software).

That may be so.  But for code using the curses library, portability
across all existing versions of that cursed library is *very* hard to
achieve.  Esp. without having access to the vast majority of those
different versions.  Been there, done it, have the scars to prove it.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.