Subject: bug#50444: Remove support for the curses library

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 23:41:39 -0700

On 9/6/21 11:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Doesn't that mean we will be removing support for AIX (and any other
> systems that cannot use ncurses due to the same problem)?

Yes it does mean that, at least, on AIX systems without any of the other 
terminal libraries installed.

> the original problem was fixed, and there's no longer a link error
> when using curses.

That's right. So I guess we should keep curses support, for the odd user 
still running Emacs on AIX. Sorry about any confusion on the topic.