From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 00:27:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E10F10656E4 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:27:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3128C8FC18 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so470947wah.27 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:27:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=n273NGJI+FqzPnENfI4DMDDuU6tJmsoE2ROWLYij8+M=; b=CcZ7SExwTWyE/Kd9QvJ8Bsxd8TMFSQBRMbA7RaZ4hgn+q8uEb8Dn8cMUJKaelp0sBB QVuFQtLWrsS3IwjjfetUa1zKtXcvzq1ozAbwhccCu/PsU/GcLi56pnDlDOEw9skjhjDg 32nwegkQ1WBcXGZ7n7NN0rZqatJ2upeCMh3kU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e5HwRsbS80h1KyNBc3quZd06RqdMxCMhOjTzvBUYc5uMAVthcD9nijjRBQ2f7VNk+e OrO/Yp6gO6fpw4wzBHsEG/jxoehcKSTlYq7aVjiLWXzRCQ3Jdrt63tZjq49l9o0tOOuP ouqFCLX8OSOwJQR3cyunPaONzTIS0lyr6PTdk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.110.1 with SMTP id n1mr1818589wam.99.1233446120754; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <779523.80455.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090131221236.GA27303@soaustin.net> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:55:20 +1300 Message-ID: From: James Butler To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:27:13 -0000 2009/2/1 Mark Linimon : > 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 :-) -James Butler