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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:46:07 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/bc Makefile config.h
Message-ID:  <20011020164607.A6833@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20011020045728.A87527@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200110190024.f9J0Odt26405@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110182130090.71203-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20011020045728.A87527@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:57:28 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> > >   Turn on the libedit support in bc.  Turn off libreadline.
> 
> Why are you on this campaign??  We already discussed this 6mo. ago when
> Kris pondered kicking libreadline out of the base system.  We agreed
> there was no use in doing this for GNU/GPV'ed programs as the end result
> is still GPL'ed.
> 
> Please back this change to `bc' out -- you are not accomplishing anything
> with this change.  I have a very complicated .inputrc that libedit just
> does not duplicate the functionality; and I use `bc' it seems every day.
> There is also no reason to be grauitiously different from other platforms
> using these GNU bits.

I fully agree.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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