GNT is an ncurses toolkit for creating text-mode graphical user interfaces in a

fast and easy way. It is based on [GLib](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib)

and [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html).

It was born out of the console-based UI, **Finch**, for the [libpurple

project](https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple), but has now been

split into its own independent repository.

To build, you will need [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/),

[GLib](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib),

[ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html),

[libxml2](http://xmlsoft.org/), and [Python 3](https://www.python.org/). Exact

versions can be determined from the `meson.build` in the top-level directory.

On Debian-based systems, install `meson` `ninja-build` `gobject-introspection`

`libgirepository1.0-dev` `gtk-doc-tools` `libglib2.0-dev` `libxml2-dev`

`libncurses-dev` `libpython3-dev`.

On Fedora-based systems, install `meson` `ninja-build` `gobject-introspection`

`gtk-doc` `glib2-devel` `libxml2-devel` `ncurses-devel` `python3-devel`.

You can then run Meson and Ninja as usual (passing any `-D` options if necessary):

$ meson build

$ ninja -C build

$ ninja -C build install

This code was originally contained in the Pidgin/Finch/libpurple repository.

Versions were set by the top-level `configure.ac` in that repository. The GNT

version was independent of Pidgin and Finch and the tag. This repository

contains the original tags and so you may see multiple tags pointing to the

same commit. The GNT version *as it was released* is noted in the second column

of the table below.

A second `configure.ac` was included in the `libgnt` subdirectory that was

extracted to produce this repository. Unfortunately, we were not consistent

with updating the version in that copy. It was deemed too much work for little

gain to go back through the history to correct this error when producing this

split repository. As such, the third column of the table below contains the

version *as recorded in `configure.ac`* at the time of a tag.

Beginning with version 2.14.0, the code has been moved to a separate repository

and so the tag and the version will remain in sync.

Tagged | Released | Recorded

-------- | ---------- | ----------

v2.13.0 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.12.0 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.11.0 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.12 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.11 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.10 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.9 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.8 | 2.8.10 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.7 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.6 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.5 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.4 | 2.8.9devel | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.3 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.2 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.1 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.10.0 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.9.0 | 2.8.9 | 2.8.0devel

v2.8.0 | 2.8.8 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.11 | 2.8.7 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.10 | 2.8.6 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.9 | 2.8.5 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.8 | 2.8.5 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.7 | 2.8.4 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.6 | 2.8.3 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.5 | 2.8.2 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.4 | 2.8.1 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.3 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0devel

v2.7.2 | 2.7.2 | 2.7.0devel

v2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.0devel

v2.7.0 | 2.7.0 | 2.7.0devel

v2.6.6 | 2.6.6 | 2.6.2devel

v2.6.5 | 2.6.5 | 2.6.2devel

v2.6.4 | 2.6.4 | 2.6.2devel

v2.6.3 | 2.6.3 | 2.6.2devel

v2.6.2 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.2devel

v2.6.1 | 2.6.1 | 2.5.0

v2.6.0 | 2.6.0 | 2.5.0

v2.5.9 | 2.5.9 | 2.5.6

v2.5.8 | 2.5.8 | 2.5.6

v2.5.7 | 2.5.7 | 2.5.6

v2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6

v2.5.5 | 2.5.5 | 2.5.0

v2.5.4 | 2.5.4 | 2.5.0

v2.5.3a | 2.5.3 | 2.5.0

v2.5.3 | 2.5.3devel | 2.5.0

v2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.0

v2.5.1 | 2.5.1 | 2.5.0

v2.5.0 | 2.5.0 | 2.5.0

v2.4.3 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.2

v2.4.2 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.2

v2.4.1 | 2.4.1 | 2.4.1

v2.4.0 | 2.4.0 | 2.4.0devel

v2.3.1 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.1

v2.3.0 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.0

v2.2.2 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.0devel

v2.2.1 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.0devel

v2.2.0 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.0devel

v2.1.1 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0devel

v2.1.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0devel

v2.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.0beta7

v2.0.1 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.0beta7

v2.0.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0beta7