On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 12:55:20PM +1300, James Butler wrote: > 2009/2/1 Mark Linimon <linimon_at_lonesome.com>: > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ? > > > > Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed one, or > > someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and ports on all the > > appropriate architectures. > > This might be off topic, but NetBSD has (limited) readline > compatibility in their libedit (which FreeBSD has in ports I think) - > this also gives them tab-completion in /bin/sh :-) I once posted a patch which ports it to FreeBSD. It would need a lot of work to fix all ports though.Received on Sun Feb 01 2009 - 08:20:41 UTC
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