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Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit. |
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:08:28 +0200 |
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Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> skribis:
> I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit,
> should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch
> contained here successfully links against libedit on NetBSD and
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Likewise, it still behaves correctly with
> libreadline on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and
> OpenSolaris.
Isn’t libedit supposed to be a clone of Readline just for the sake of
avoiding the GPL?
Why not let its maintainers fix it, if they really want it to behave
like a drop-in replacement?
Thanks,
Ludo’.