From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 19 1:50:28 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5F615171; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18415; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:48:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00539; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:15:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908190815.JAA00539@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Mark Murray , "Andrey A. Chernov" , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/libreadline FREEBSD-upgrade rlstdc.h CHANGELOG CHANGES MANIFEST Makefile.in README aclocal.m4 bind.c callback.c complete.c configure configure.in display.c funmap.c histexpand.c histfile.c histlib.h history.c history.h input.c ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:34:08 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:15:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > > "What stands in the way of moving libreadline out of /usr/src and into > > > ports where it belongs." > > > > The way I think I understand things; GNU code in FreeBSD that uses > > readline. > > Great, so if GDB and BC and the others are "dealt with" then we can > confine libreadline to ports where it belongs? Objections? I don't object (free is better than GPL), but I'd suggest that it's a very dangerous and tricky thing to do right. It may not be worth the effort. > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message