Mats Erik Andersson <g...@gisladisker.se> skribis: > I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit, > should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch > contained here successfully links against libedit on NetBSD and > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Likewise, it still behaves correctly with > libreadline on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and > OpenSolaris.
Isn’t libedit supposed to be a clone of Readline just for the sake of avoiding the GPL? Why not let its maintainers fix it, if they really want it to behave like a drop-in replacement? Thanks, Ludo’.