From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2002-07-26T21:37:31+09:00
Subject: Re: curses dev kit, was Re: [OT] Re: GUI's and the Rouge

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:31:22PM +0900, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 07:51:25PM +0900, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > there's a development kit for curses:
> > > http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/
> > better (fewer bugs, etc):
> > 	http://invisible-island.net/cdk/
> 
> As a point of interest, here's something else from the Debian
> database:
> 
> Package: libctk3
> Priority: optional
> Section: libs
> Installed-Size: 119
> Maintainer: Pete Lypkie (Debian) <plypkie@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: libctk
> Version: 3.0.24
> Depends: libarr0, libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgpmg1 (>= 1.14-16)
> Filename: pool/main/libc/libctk/libctk3_3.0.24_i386.deb
> Size: 51928
> MD5sum: 24d6cf97952b63301943bac345a55189
> Description: Console Tool Kit
>  Console Tool Kit is a toolkit for writing textbased GUIs. The syntax is
>  almost the same as GTK+. It provides mouse support on the console through
>  gpm.
^^^^^^^

	Could as well advocate a windows only package, remember, GNU's not Unix,
	Linux's Gnu, Unix's not Linux - there are others out there, and most
	do not have gpm. Curses at least is portable.

-Martin