On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:28 +0000, Greg Stark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > > 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/ > > I'm really confused between libedit and libeditline. They both appear > to be in Debian and I think they both trace their lineage to the > original BSD library. Was one the NetBSD maintained one and the other > the "upstream"? > > > 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). > > Personally I find there are plenty of technical reasons to run > screaming from OpenSSL anyways. >
Maybe we really should consider moving to NSS insread? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ If it solves the license problem, it is well supported etc.. JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
