From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 18 9:14:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9510C37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.138.210.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.138.210]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16957; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B55B5E6.7D3659BD@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:14:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Kris Kennaway , Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline References: <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010716103351.A81876@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010716031932.A5930@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010717094027.A78232@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010717102713.A79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010718002343.A30891@nagual.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > > Okay. So it sounds like there's a "shim" to libedit which would be > > > the API replacement for libreadline. Could we call that something > > > cute like 'libreadlinele' ('le' for 'libedit') or 'libeditrl', but > > > leave libreadline as a separate port? > > > > How about 'libedit'? :) I could live with that; it's just some > > makefile changes. > > I vote this too. We don't need stripped down libreadline under > 'libreadline' name pretend to be full version (f.e. for autoconf, etc.) The cryptography libraries have set a precedent here. I could argue the same thing about the presence of a full DES in libcrypt. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message