RE: ncurses-6.2-20200831

[Randall S. Becker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
> Sent: September 1, 2020 3:53 PM
> To: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Cc: Ncurses Mailing List <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: ncurses-6.2-20200831
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> | To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
> | Cc: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> | Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 3:42:32 PM
> | Subject: RE: ncurses-6.2-20200831
> 
> |> -----Original Message-----
> |> From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
> |> Sent: September 1, 2020 3:32 PM
> |> To: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> |> Cc: dickey@his.com; 'Ncurses Mailing List' <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> |> Subject: Re: ncurses-6.2-20200831
> |>
> |> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> |> > Hi Thomas,
> |> >
> |> > Are you keeping the git mirror on github up to date? I have not
> |> > seen any commits in 15 days.
> |>
> |> I think you're referring to this:
> |>
> |> https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
> |>
> |> which appears to be a mirror of this:
> |>
> |> http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=summary
> |> http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/
> |>
> |> That was announced here:
> |>
> |> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2010-07/msg00021.html
> |> and
> |> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2018-01/msg00054.html
> |>
> |> I don't see Alejandro subscribed to this mailing list.
> |>
> |> As I mentioned last week
> |>
> |> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00096.html
> |>
> |> I push to
> |>
> |> https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots
> |>
> |> a snapshot corresponding to the weekly patches.
> |>
> |> Alejandro's mirror has been useful to some people; I don't know how
> |> it is configured, nor why it has not updated recently.
> |
> | Thanks Thomas. I'm just trying to use the official repository -
> | building weekly for my community is not practical.
> 
> https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/official

How about "the most useful"? 😉