site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Leimbach wrote: | | 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. This is totally beside the point. No other *BSD ships a libreadline in /usr/lib that links to libedit. FreeBSD ships GNU readline, NetBSD only has libedit in /usr/lib (but it does have /usr/include/readline/readline.h and /usr/include/readline/history.h). The problem is not that libedit does not offer 100% GNU readline compatibility, it is that Apple sees fit to pretend that it does by including the symlink. | | 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 :)]. This is crap, it is far easier for a user who wishes to do so to link ~/lib/libreadline.dylib to /usr/lib/libedit.dylib than it is to remove the link. | | 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. See above. You could easily put such a link in the build dir. Peter - -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBQn7jW7iDAg3OZTLPAQJtFwP+O5dbz5AvzJQg54+vlGZiPt2N/+ute8/h 0kBIDdLxviO7j3vZtnUWHpUKh0NINBA06cSMF2QuQ0DNA16tZtMTr0KwtRUGKM+w BgA3f5g6Rez/bxwZcKnPYLKW8nlzXfg9WqnDPhVyzCaa7FUQAOHW+wBQvJTHM3/R E/tLI00rp3k= =1CG0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com