Andrew Dunstan wrote:
You're assuming a fact not in evidence, namely the existence of an identifiable group of "libedit folks". Last time I looked there was no such group.
There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date
And a third who periodically packages that at http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
Those are the group as far as I can tell. It's not encouraging that the Debian issue with libedit+UTF8 has been documented for almost year a now: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579729
(And we shouldn't assume that GnuTLS is the right replacement for OpenSSL either, BTW).
The idea of using NSS instead is an interesting one. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_TLS_Implementations it does seem to match the basic feature set of OpenSSL. And the nss_compat_ossl compatibility layer might be useful: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl
I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate dependence on the one with an unreasonable license (OpenSSL).
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