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Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-30T00:16:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> Actually, IMHO, the pro to moving to libedit is that we could include it
> as part of the distribution and make history a *standard* feature

How big is libedit?  If it's tiny, that might be a good argument ...
but I don't want to see us bulking up our distro with something that
people could and should get directly from its source.

			regards, tom lane