Re: Tiger and libreadline
Re: Tiger and libreadline
- Subject: Re: Tiger and libreadline
- From: David Leimbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 16:58:02 -0700
On 5/8/05, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> []
> > It would be nice if libreadline was LGPL'd, just as a large number of
> > other GNU project libraries are, but it is not. Until then, we'll do
> > our best to provide an unencumbered compatibility story with libedit,
> > which is BSD licensed and, as Bill notes, not an Apple invention in any
> > way (the *BSD projects have exactly the same concerns).
>
> But do they install a symlink libreadline.dylib->libedit.dylib? This is
> the real problem we were discussing here. It is a technical installation
> problem, not a philosophical GPL vs BSD license problem.
>
The GPL creates business problems that the BSDL [and LGPL in this
case] does not. It goes beyond "philosophy". The fact is libedit is
designed to replace libreadline. So the symlink makes perfect
technical sense. The problem is it doesn't offer 100% libreadline
compatiblity yet.
You are free to install and link against libreadline if you choose.
Alternatively you could hack on libedit [probably not what you want to do :)].
Claiming that the symlink has no purpose is a bit subjective I'd say.
For me I'd want software that CAN link libedit instead of libreadline
to link libedit instead. To me that symlink saves me a lot of crap of
fixing the project I wanted to build/link to use the correct library.
I agree it's ugly and that it's a workaround but good luck getting
every project that fits that pattern to bend to your will.
Dave
> --
> Martin
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