Re: Unofficial ncurses git repository

[Alejandro R. Sedeño]

On 7/24/2010 23:01, "Alejandro R. Sedeño" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been playing with some scripts to take the weekly patch releases
> and incorporate them into a git repository. I'm finally satisfied with
> them, have automated them, and believe the repository is ready to share.
>
> The repository is available at:
>
>   git://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/ncurses.git
>
> and browsable at:
>
>   http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/
>
> The repository currently contains all releases back to 4.1, and all
> weekly patches since release 5.6. It is updated by a cron job that runs
> hourly, and should update with no intervention until ncurses 5.8 is
> released.

Just a reminder that this repo still exists. I just updated it to deal
with ncurses 6.1.

Given that Thomas is now exporting to git as well[1], I'd like to gauge
interest in continuing to maintain this repo. While it is not much
effort on my part, it is also not as useful to keep in the face of a
more official and more complete alternative[2].

-Alejandro

[1] http://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html
[2] https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots