Re: Trimming the CVS "gdb" module

Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-19T21:27:50Z

> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:22:45 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> how is this different from only having TUI support if there's
> already a curses library installed on the end-user system?

It's different because the technology for bringing gettext with a
package's tarball and building it as part of the package build is
known and used by other GNU packages. By contrast, no GNU package
known to me comes with a replacement for curses (and curses-like
libraries will not work on non-Posix systems anyway, since AFAIK they
rely heavily on Unix-style terminal driver features).