SPUG: No Motif for Curses, but found Curses Development Kit

Elf Sternberg elf at halcyon.com
Wed Aug 18 17:19:31 CDT 1999


"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin at daft.com> wrote:

>I was curious to see if I could find something called "Motif for
>Curses".  I failed.  But I did find something interesting called the
>Curses Development Kit.  It's both a C library and a Perl extension.  I
>haven't used it yet but it looks interesting.  Check out:
><URL:http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html> for more.

	That's the one I was thinking of.  I'm not so impressed with
it as I one was, although it does have a lot of attractive features.
I've found that, in Perl at least, a lot of the things it offers are
easier to write using the Perl run-time library rather than the XS
interface-based stuff.  

		Elf

Elf M. Sternberg, rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
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