Package Details: notcurses 2.1.7-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/notcurses.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: notcurses
Description: Blingful TUI/character graphics library
Upstream URL: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
Licenses: Apache
Submitter: dankamongmen
Maintainer: dankamongmen
Last Packager: dankamongmen
Votes: 8
Popularity: 0.50
First Submitted: 2019-12-02 18:31
Last Updated: 2021-01-21 19:28

Latest Comments

dankamongmen commented on 2020-07-10 18:14

@megamind6155: can you ensure you're not doing a build from a cached download? the error:

pandoc: /home/me/.cache/yay/notcurses/src/notcurses-1.6.0/doc/man/man3/notcurses_lines.3.md: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

suggests that this file doesn't exist, but it's most definitely in the downloaded checkout. Does that path exist in ~me for you? Can you try running rm -rf ~/.cache/yay/notcurses, and then try building anew? Thanks.

if you can take this to https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/781, i'll work with you to resolve it ASAP.

dankamongmen commented on 2020-07-10 14:58

@megamind6155: thanks a lot for the report! I've written up the problem at https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/781. I'll hopefully get it knocked out today, for inclusion in the 1.6.1 release due this weekend. The problem appears to be in pandoc.

megamind6155 commented on 2020-07-10 09:27

I'm not able to build the package. I'm getting a build failure. Here is a yay build log: https://bin.snopyta.org/?badaefaa5e7597e3#5F5QxQJPEqNoHA2BjvKByiHY7yYbbZwvK5YNMpzDND52

BigfootLives commented on 2020-05-18 23:33

@dankamongmen I pulled my comment when it dawned on me that I was misreading the CMakeLists -- guess I was a little too slow. Totally my bad! Yeah, the testing deps are pretty light. I generally like AUR packages to be as paired down as possible to avoid chasing down packages, but if you find that they're beneficial to you as a maintainer then that's more important. Cheers.

dankamongmen commented on 2020-05-18 23:30

@BigfootLives: qrcodegen is not disabled by default. The CMakeLists.txt entry is:

option(USE_QRCODEGEN "Disable libqrcodegen QR code support" ON)

USE_QRCODEGEN is thus ON by default. It's described as "disable libqrcodegen QR code support" because using (changing) it would be to disable QR code gen. It's a tiny dep with no external deps, so I'm disinclined to make it optional.

I want the tests run everywhere they can be, since if a bug is ever reported, my first question would be "do the unit tests pass in your environment?" Furthermore, doctest is only a header file, so it's a pretty minor dependency itself. If it wasn't available as a dep, I would include it in the tarball; I always want the unit tests run.

Are the unit tests breaking for you? If so, please please please file a bug, and I promise I'll chase down the problem with you.

If I'm going to make anything optional, it would be ffmpeg, which is probably a good idea.

Do you have particular reasoning as to why you'd like to avoid the (run+buildtime) dependency of qrcodegen, or the (buildtime only) dependency of doctest? If so, please reply, or (if applicable) better yet open up a bug on notcurses.

Thanks! --nick, author and maintainer of notcurses