From: Rahul Kumar Date: 2010-08-30T14:01:46+09:00 Subject: Re: ffi-ncurses 0.3.3 botp et al There seems to be a little confusion on what i said regarding "ncurses". rbcurse does depend on ruby-ncurses but not for forms and menus. The purpose of writing rbcurse was to be free of ncurses forms and fields which are very restrictive. Yes, i understand that ffi-ncurses goes directly to native ncurses and not to ruby-ncurses. Yes, I understand that ffi is not a drop in replacement. My problem in converting is only that testing is very difficult, its a completely manual process. I have not been able to automate, since most errors were usually visual errors. Also, sadly it seems no one is really using console apps today. All app development has shifted to the web. So i don't know if the effort of shifting to ffi-nc is worth it. Sadly, no one is maintaining ruby-ncurses as a gem. (Even after installing the gem on 1.8.7 yesterday i still had to run make/make install since the bundle files were not installed.) If there is a need, and people find ncurses-ruby to be a pain, i will gladly work to shift rbcurse to ffi. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.