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Hi,

while trying to run Declt onterminfo I came across a small issue:

Declt expects the author field to be a string, not a list, and this looks like the standard for all the libraries inside Quicklisp (in fact, I've only found two that disobey the rule: yours, and qmynd, in the maintainer field).

In the ASDF manual, these fields seem to be expected to be strings as well.

In an effort to standardize your system definition, would you consider changing this field?

Thanks!

Dear Lispers,

it seems that the package doesn't support 32-bit terminfo files. When I try to load the terminfo db with the TERM env variable equal to screen-256color I hit this error:

                (if (= whosit #o432)              
                    whosit                        
                  (error "Invalid file format"))))

...which (I assume) is related to this:

/lib/terminfo/s/screen-256color: Compiled 32-bit terminfo entry "screen-256color"
/lib/terminfo/x/xterm:           Compiled terminfo entry "xterm"

The initial bytes for the other format are #o542 it seems and probably completely new support has to be written.

Currently quicklisp gets terminfo via linedit.

It would be nice if it would be separate. I'm about to update terminfo in linedit from your tree, and started thinking about this.

If you have the energy, I think it would be best if you could be in touch with Paul Foley about this: if he gives his blessing and Xach adds terminfo as a separate entity to quicklisp I'll be happy to remove terminfo from linedit...