[darcs-users] darcs patch: Disable terminfo by default (Cabal)

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Eric Kow  wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:43:30 -0800, Judah Jacobson wrote:
>> Would it make sense to set the terminfo flag to be true by default,
>> and instead use this in the .cabal file?
>>
>>   if flag(terminfo) && !os(windows)
>>     build-depends:    terminfo == 0.2.* && >= 0.2.2
>>     cpp-options:      -DHAVE_TERMINFO
>
> Indeed that sounds sensible (with a comment saying why we refuse to
> allow terminfo on Windows).  I would welcome a patch (which would
> rollback mine, which I now regret pushing) to do this if you were
> willing to submit it :-)

If Judah doesn't want to do it, I don't mind doing it. I was saddened
when I saw my arrow keys had begun to dump garbage into patch names
again.

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gwern
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