[ANN] ncurses-ruby 0.9

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ncurses-ruby 0.9 has been released

What is it

ncurses-ruby is a ruby extension for accessing the ncurses library.
Ncurses is a library for manipulating character-cell based terminals.
Compared to other wrappers of curses functionality, ncurses-ruby aims at
completeness and close resemblance to the C API (a README file explains
how to map the ncurses C API docs to ncurses-ruby). The panel and form
extensions to curses are also supported.

What’s new

  • The forms wrapper was contributed by Simon Kaczor. “form” is a curses
    extension for programming forms, like input fields.
  • ncurses-ruby now also works with ncurses-4.2 (an old release from
    1998).
  • First release featuring a binary for Sharp Zaurus (arm-linux).

Supported Platforms

curses panel form

*     *     *   Unix (including cygwin) + Ncurses

*     *         Win32 + PDCurses (binary available for ruby-1.8)

*               arm-linux + Ncurses (binary available for ruby-1.6
                and ncurses 4.2 on Sharp Zaurus SL5500 (with original
                ROM)

Where to get it

http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/