Re: any upcoming changes that will create binary incompatibilities?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've heard that the reason that I could not get > 8 colors is that to

"> 16"

ncurses uses 8 bits for color pairs in the normal versions.

> have the ncurses-library support this, it'll become binary incompatible
> with previous versions of the library. Now the maintainer of the
> distribution I use is waiting for another reason to break things as he
> needs to increase the soversion to 6. So my question now is: is there
> anything big coming up which at itself would also require recompilation
> like this > 8 color-thing does?

Not at the moment - the things I'm investigating don't require a change
to the ABI.

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