From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 18 11:33: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ADC37B40B; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6IIW1x44550; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:32:01 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:32:00 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Kris Kennaway , David Malone , current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 hi, there! On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency > >in the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of > >functional code duplication. > > I may be misunderstanding what you mean here, but I don't think > we should replace libreadline with libedit. However, I do find > this very interesting, as some of my friends and I have a program > that we're going to switch from "gnu" to "bsd" licensing, and it > would be nice if we could use this libedit instead of libreadline. I read on pgsql-hackers mailinglist that only static linking with libreadline will infect your binaries with GPL virus. btw PostgreSQL already has support for NetBSD's libedit /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message