does it need ncurses??

[walkthetalk]

Describe the bug

in README, it said without external dependency of ncurses, but in FAQ, it said need libncurses, so which one is right?

[gansm]

It seems a bit confusing. FINAL CUT only needs the termcap library to determine the device-independent terminal capabilities.

#include <term.h> // termcap

The termcap library is available as a standalone library (libtermcap) or bundled with ncurses (libtinfo).

FINAL CUT does not call any ncurses functions with libtinfo. It has its own cursor optimization and window management. Therefore, libfinal is only dynamically linked with libtinfo and not with libncurses or libncursesw.
 

Learn more about the termcap library:

• The Termcap Manual
• NetBSD implementation of the termcap library
• The GNU termcap library