[Ecls-list] [Announcement] ecl-readline V0.4.0

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:20 +1000
> Jason Aquilina <jfa7600 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> ECL-READLINE Version 0.4.0 is now available for download. It provides readline support at both the top and break levels.
>
> Thanks for working on this.  I've been wondering though, is it license
> restriction (readline being GPL rather than LGPL) which prevents
> including it as part of official optional ECL contribs?  I know that
> this caused issues for other projects (at least BSD licensed ones).
>
> If that is the case, libedit is a BSD-licensed alternative which might
> also be worth looking into for the future, if this kind of functionality
> is wanted officially.  If I remember, it was also designed to have an
> API similar to readline's.
> (link: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/)

Certainly, for OpenAxiom, I would very much welcome a BSD-licensed
readline capability for ECL.

>
> As for enabling or disabling the functionality, I guess that isatty(3)
> or equivalent could be used to detect when to disable it for
> non-interactive use of stdin...
>
> If the issue is a maintenance one more than license one, then I
> understand and appreciate the value of third party ECL contribs, too. :)
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