On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > 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. libedit isn't feature complete with GNU readline and many things will fail to compile with NetBSD's rip on readline. Believe me -- I tried with python -_-... Then again at least you can make GNU readline into a port for things that need it (like Python's readline module). And yes, we do already have libedit in the base source tree under lib/ libedit -- it's just extremely outdated (hence libreadline isn't available after compiling libedit). Cheers, -GarrettReceived on Sun Feb 01 2009 - 13:11:21 UTC
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