From: Barry Dmytro <badcherry@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T09:40:49+09:00
Subject: Curses VS. Ncurses


I wish to write an application in ruby using Curses/Ncurses, but it seems as
though there are 2 different api's to deal with.  There is an api with
ruby-1.8 that is titled 'curses', and then there is another called
ncurses-ruby ( http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/ ).  At first I though that
perhaps they were the same api just in two different locations, but the
latter seems more robust than the one bundled with ruby.  Any suggestions
about which would be the better api.  I use GNU/Linux exclusively, but I
test my software in windows as well.  I noticed that the curses library
bundled with ruby doesn't work out of the box with the one-click windows
ruby installer.  The main reason I bring this up is that I am concerned
about portability.  I know that ncurses-ruby is capable of using pdcurses
in windows making it portable across many platforms, but I question the
portability of the ruby standard library 'curses'.

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Barry Dmytro
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http://badcherry.org/