[terminfo-db] Add a builder for the terminfo database #9165
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This uses the directory-based database rather than the single Berkeley database (terminfo.db). The license is from ncurses, which is close enough; see https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html. Ideally this would be shipped as one of Julia's dependencies to ensure that the custom terminfo parser actually works on all platforms, as not all have the terminfo database.
Co-authored-by: Mosè Giordano <giordano@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mosè Giordano <giordano@users.noreply.github.com>
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I'm confused now: |
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I wish I knew... |
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Okay wtf: But then and |
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Am I going crazy or does this make no sense? (I guess those aren't mutually exclusive...) Also very possible that how I've gone about the case handling is incorrect but it seems like it should work as written. |
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For the record, it turns out the database contains lots of hardlinked files which share the same inodes (you can check it out with |
Co-authored-by: Mosè Giordano <giordano@users.noreply.github.com>
| # I'd rather not list out >2k individual `FileProduct`s so let's just call the entry | ||
| # for xterm our "product" and hope the rest are there | ||
| products = [ | ||
| FileProduct("share/terminfo/x/xterm", :terminfo_xterm), |
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Can share/terminfo be the "file" product?
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Yeah, I think that'd work as well
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How does versioning work if we change this?
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If you don't change the version number, Pkg will only install the latest one.
This uses the directory-based database rather than the single Berkeley database (terminfo.db). The license is from ncurses, which is close enough; see https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html.
Ideally this would be shipped as one of Julia's dependencies to ensure that the custom terminfo parser actually works on all platforms, as not all have the terminfo database.