Re: Tiger and libreadline
Re: Tiger and libreadline
- Subject: Re: Tiger and libreadline
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:50:17 -0700
The Tiger version is neither broken nor 'incorrect'. It does what
it says on the tin. It is however the BSD version not the GNU
version.
It is, however, incompatible. There is no `BSD version' versus `GNU
version'. The BSD libedit resembles readline in that they both provide
emacs and vi editing modes, but there is neither source nor object
compatibility. There has been some attempt to provide both, but it's
not there yet (try key binding or multibyte character support).
In addition, there is no BSD version of libreadline. BSD libedit has
been in Mac OS X since at least 10.2. The new things are the
compatibility wrappers in readline/readline.h and, and this seems to
me to be Apple's invention, the symlinks
readline/history.h->readline.h and
libreadline.dylib->libedit.2.dylib. The overall effect is the same
(licensing issues aside) as having included a very old incompatible
version of GNU readline.
I maintain that this is broken.
Then it's important that you file a bug with Apple using Radar.
The appropriate people will not be tracking this issue on a mailing list.
-pmb
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