[Python-Dev] NetBSD and curses (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue Mar 15 17:07:12 CET 2011

Hi, Sorry, it was just laughingly pointed out to me that I responded to your complaint about a bug being ignored by asking you to file a bug. :) Thats what I get for "reading" things late at night.

regardless, any time you have a patch for something, please attach it to the issue, things on the mailing list get lost. I've gone ahead and attached the patch and accepted the issue. I have a netbsd ec2 instance to test with now but haven't had time to get it setup for python development.

None of the devs currently run netbsd on a regular basis or have much experience with it as a platform so patches are a great help. Any chance you can also make a version of the patch that applies against hg cpython tip (3.3)?

-gps

2011/3/15 Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>

Would you please post this to bugs.python.org so that it doesn't get lost? thanks!

-gps On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Bill Green <bill at supposedly.org> wrote:

Hi all,

I ran across this issue several months ago and filed a bug report (#9667). It just came up again, and it doesn't look like anything's been done with the bug report, so I thought I'd post here. In cursesmodule.c there are a lot of preprocesser conditionals that test if the system is NetBSD. In my case, the issue was that the module built lacked the KEYUP / DOWN / etc. constants, but there are other changes as well. This is the case even if you're compiling against ncurses instead of the system curses. Αttached below is a patch against 2.7.1 that negates the NetBSD conditionals if ncurses is present. It seems to work as expected, although I haven't done any real testing. I assumed this was done because NetBSD curses was missing something, but I looked at the headers and it seems to have most of the constants that the compilation directives are leaving out (AINVIS, the aforementioned KEY* constants, at least), so I'm not sure why that code isn't compiled in anyway. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding this. Thanks, Bill

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