Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:16:16 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> Cc: current@freebsd.org, James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> Subject: Much ado about libedit [Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)] Message-ID: <F5F65516-ED99-4055-90B9-E062196CBC07@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090201090143.GA1429@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> References: <779523.80455.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090131221236.GA27303@soaustin.net> <f0dd9eb90901311553u9eaf5c2h508146ca227ef8e6@mail.gmail.com> <f0dd9eb90901311555u4c5e4d4fv515f5ceb3d075b77@mail.gmail.com> <20090201090143.GA1429@lizard.fafoe.narf.at>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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@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 And yes, we do already have libedit in the base source tree under lib/ libedit -- it's just extremely outdated (hence libreadline isn't available after compiling libedit).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, -Garrett
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?F5F65516-ED99-4055-90B9-E062196CBC07>