puthon curses on NetBSD

[Hal Murray]

> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
>> ntpmon should not required, but very strongly encouraged.  So test for
>> pythong curses, complain loudly when not found, but do not fail at that
>> point.

> +1 

Why do you say that?

I don't care what the answer is.   That seems like the sort of code you like 
to rip out or generalize so this is an opportunity to learn.

The current code tests for curses and if not found, it bypasses testing and 
installing ntpmon.  It works, but seems ugly to me.  ctx.env['PYTHON_CURSES' 
is set in pylib/wscrip, tested twice in wscript (install), and again in 
wafhelpers/bin_test.py (testing).

Is curses special enough to deserve this treatment?  Should we test for the 
other Python libraries we need?

As far as I know, the only thing special about curses is that NetBSD 
distributes it as a separate package and I wasn't smart enough to install it 
when installing python so ntpmon broke when we added bin-test to catch this 
sort of problem.

Does anybody other than me care about ntpsec on NetBSD?


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