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+require 'formula'
+
+class Tpp < Formula
+  homepage 'http://synflood.at/tpp.html'
+  url 'http://synflood.at/tpp/tpp-1.3.1.tar.gz'
+  sha1 'e99fca1d7819c23d4562e3abdacea7ff82563754'
+
+  depends_on 'figlet' => :optional
+
+  resource 'ncurses-ruby' do
+    url 'https://downloads.sf.net/project/ncurses-ruby.berlios/ncurses-ruby-1.3.1.tar.bz2'
+    sha1 'e50018fc906e5048403b277a898117e782e267c4'
+  end
+
+  def install
+    lib_ncurses = libexec+'ncurses-ruby'
+    inreplace 'tpp.rb', 'require "ncurses"', <<-EOS.undent
+      require File.expand_path('#{lib_ncurses}/ncurses_bin.bundle', __FILE__)
+      require File.expand_path('#{lib_ncurses}/ncurses_sugar.rb', __FILE__)
+    EOS
+
+    bin.install 'tpp.rb' => 'tpp'
+    share.install 'contrib', 'examples'
+    man1.install 'doc/tpp.1'
+    doc.install 'README', 'CHANGES', 'DESIGN', 'COPYING', 'THANKS', 'README.de'
+
+    resource('ncurses-ruby').stage do
+      inreplace 'extconf.rb', '$CFLAGS  += " -g"',
+                              '$CFLAGS  += " -g -DNCURSES_OPAQUE=0"'
+      system 'ruby', 'extconf.rb'
+      system 'make'
+      lib_ncurses.install 'lib/ncurses_sugar.rb', 'ncurses_bin.bundle'
+    end
+  end
+
+  test do
+    assert `#{bin}/tpp --version`.chomp ==
+           "tpp - text presentation program #{version}"
+  end
+end