Re: Advanced readline support patch added to Wiki

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

Is there a compatible library I can link it against for windows?

Love, Light and Peace,
- Peter Loveday
Director of Development, eyeon Software


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Pall" <mikelu-0405@mike.de>
To: <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Advanced readline support patch added to Wiki


> Hi,
> 
> > Does this still need/use the GPL readline library?
> 
> You raise a valid concern. And as you can see here ...
> 
> > >It has been verified to work with Lua 5.0, 5.0.2, 5.1-work0 and
> > >GNU readline 2.2.1, 4.0, 4.3 or NETBSD libedit 2.6.5, 2.6.9.
> 
> ... it works just fine with the non-GPL (!) NETBSD libedit.
> You can download it from: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/libedit/
> 
> So you could say that it uses the readline library *API*, but not
> necessarily the GNU readline *library*.
> 
> Bye,
>      Mike
>