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Re: 2nd summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)


Christopher Faylor wrote:

clear


This comes from ncurses doesn't it?  Is it being purposely dropped from the ncurses
distribution?  Chuck?

There is a clear package, containing only /usr/bin/clear.exe, that predated ncurses in the cygwin distro. (E.g. full.exe had clear but not ncurses).


So, currently ncurses ships with '/usr/bin/clearn.exe' to avoid conflicts. If no maintainer appears for the clear package, I'd be happy to release a new ncurses package that doesn't rename its clear.exe, and we can drop the 'clear' package from the distro.

Or maybe we can do that even if the 'clear' package maintainer shows up and agrees.

I do not know the provenance of the code for clear.exe in the 'clear' package. It may be ncurses-derived, or maybe not.

--
Chuck



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