Ncurses deprecated "~master" issue

[Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 17:37:18 UTC, Matt Soucy wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 07:07 AM, Paul wrote:
>> Sorry if this is a little off-topic, I posted this in the Dub 
>> forum on 23/11/14 but have had no reply yet:
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> I read that the use of a branch spec like "~master" in 
>> dub.json is deprecated. I also read that it could be overriden 
>> on a per-project basis by editing the project's 
>> dub.selections.json file but I can't find any information 
>> about what is actually required in this file and whether any 
>> corresponding changes need to be made to dub.json.
>> 
>> I'm trying to use 'ncurses' which doesn't have a version 
>> number, only "~master".
>> ---
>> 
>> Also, does anyone know how 'beta' the ncurses module actually 
>> is, is anyone using it?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Paul
> So, as far as I know there isn't any plan for versioning that 
> specific library. I've used it, however, and it's pretty usable 
> (as much as ncurses goes, at any rate).

So do I manually add those source files to my program (assuming 
the ncurses libs are installed) if compiling with dmd rather than 
using dub?