Ncurses deprecated "~master" issue

[Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:37:03 UTC, Paul wrote:
> 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?

Bump!

I need to use ncurses for some quick prototyping now but I still 
can't get it to work. Can someone please spell out the steps I 
need to take to get this going? I'm using dmd on a linux mint box 
and have ncurses (and dev package) installed.

What do I need to install and import exactly if I don't utilise 
Dub?

TIA

Paul