Re: Advanced readline support patch added to Wiki

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

True.  However, OS X unfortunately does not have a readline-compatible 
libedit.
I'm currently fighting to make a short wrapper to OS X/Darwin 
'editline'.

-ak


28.5.2004 kello 13:43, Mike Pall kirjoitti:

>  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