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bug #59210: [December 2020] remove support for Slang

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Thu 01 Oct 2020 06:57:33 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Tue 12 Jan 2021 03:38:08 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Closing, as it is not a bug.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sat 05 Dec 2020 07:20:47 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Support for Slang has been removed in commit 4f7593b7 and subsequent clean-up commits.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 19 Nov 2020 08:04:49 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Slang support will be dropped after the release of 5.4.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Tue 17 Nov 2020 10:46:41 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Jordi?  Any comment on this?

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 01 Oct 2020 06:57:33 AM UTC, original submission:  

Seeing the unfixable absence of the cursor in some of the prompts (bug #59107), and the much worse disappearing of the cursor after some operations (bug #59091, partially worked around (for the default setup with help lines)), and seeing several other bugs that went unnoticed for a long time (bug #59078, bug #59077, bug #59071, and before these there were some others), I no longer want to support Slang.

Slang has too many bugs, it is unusable.  It is irresponsible to use it in an environment where things must simply work, out of the box, no bugs.  Limitations, yes, but no irritating wrong behavior.

Ncurses is used far more widely, gets much more testing, and works flawlessly when planted into the Debian installer.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2021-01-12 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-12-05 bens StatusNone Fixed
    2020-11-19 bens Summary[November 2020] remove support for Slang [December 2020] remove support for Slang
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