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Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-29T22:10:13Z
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > FreeBSD has a freely available library called 'libedit' that could
> > be shipped with postgresql, it's under the BSD license.
> 
> Yes, that is our solution if we have a real problem here.

Is there a reason *not* to move towards that for v7.2 so that the
functions we are making optional with readline are automatic?  Since we
could then ship the code, we could make it a standard vs optional
"feature" ...

My thought would be to put 'make history feaure standard using libedit'
onto the TODO list and take it from there ...