Re: readline extension status?

Quoting Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > KK>> Regarding readline: I believe there is a Non-GPL plugin replacement > > KK>> for readline. Will search for it. > > > > I think that's libedit, which seems to be a parto of FreeBSD. I don't know > > if or where it is available separately. > > Not listed on freshmeat. Google finds it. Part of OpenBSD, NetBSD > and FreeBSD, available seperately, as RPM and source, > NetBSD is the main tree developing this - both OpenBSD and FreeBSD have very old syncs with the NetBSD tree, and don't have the readline compatibility layer (At OpenBSD, we have code patches under review, not sure about FreeBSD) camield@openbsd.org is working on the OpenBSD sync, and he may be able to comment on how viable it is to pull libedit out of NetBSD into a separate package. (Camiel, this is regarding finding a BSD-licensed replacement to readline, as RMS is kicking up a fuss over PHP including an interface to it) > > libedit is supposed to be readline compatible, it seems > That's definitely the intention: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/lib/libedit/readline.c (look at rev 1.1) -- Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>