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From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: Led <ledest@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [3.15] System change proposal: Use netbsd-curses instead of GNU
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Hi,

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Led wrote:

>> If you have technical evidence to demonstrate that GNU ncurses is superior
>> to the NetBSD implementation for Alpine, then please feel free to submit
>> those arguments, but bad faith arguments are unhelpful and unwelcome.
>
> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-netbsd.html

Many of the arguments there are poorly formulated, and Roy Marples has 
made rebuttals to the majority of them.  At any rate, I would rather have 
a curses implementation that is cleanly written with asymptotic behavior 
than a highly-optimized curses implementation that is not cleanly written.

Ariadne