site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 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). 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 _______________________________________________ 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... 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. 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. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com