Re: GNU readline and BSD license

The Hermit Hacker writes:

> 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 ...

In my mind this is a pointless waste of developer time because there is no
problem to solve here.  I'm sure we all have better things to do than
porting libedit to a dozen systems and then explaining to users why the
tarball is bloated and their carefully composed readline configuration
doesn't work anymore.

If there is something functionally wrong with Readline then let's talk
about it, but let's not replace it with something because some PHP dude
said that RMS said something.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/