ncurses or slang

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Slava Zanko wrote:

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> Michail Vidiassov wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> what is the preferred screen output library in the
>> upcoming mc 4.7 and current pre2?
>> I.e. if one can install both ncurses and slang2 on his system
>> what mc is to be compiled against, what branch is developed and tested
>> more active, where are bugs fewer and features more abundant?
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> Preferred to S-Lang (as default), but Ncurses fully supported too.
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> With NCurses we have some restrictions (like trouble with drawing of
> double lines for boxes). S-Lang is a more powerfull library.

not really (just lack of developers for MC that happen to know both 
libraries)

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