From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 05:28:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77721065672 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:28:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp7.server.rpi.edu (smtp7.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0578FC1B for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:28:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp7.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n125Sj4O006369; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:28:46 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <87223.61659.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <87223.61659.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:28:44 -0500 To: giffunip@tutopia.com From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 20.00] 22490(-25) X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.227 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:28:50 -0000 At 3:22 PM -0800 1/31/09, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Mark Linimon wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU > > > readline ? > > > > Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed > > one, or someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and > > ports on all the appropriate architectures. > >Wrong on both: > >- libedit has a readline compatibility mode that has replaced > GNU readline in the other BSDs. One minor datapoint: I use readline in some program that is used by several people on several platforms. One of those users was on MacOS 10 (iirc), and used the libedit which was on that platform. While it could be made compile-time compatible with readline, it wasn't a completely adequate replacement for this program of ours. The guy who tried this said it was because our program takes advantage of knowing some of the internals of what readline is doing, so it can implement a few extra features. Now, that can easily be said to be "the fault" of our program, but who's to say that other programs don't do the same thing? As such, libedit is not necessarily a drop-in replacement for libreadline. Someone would have to do the legwork, and certainly I don't feel like doing that legwork. I don't even feel like fixing that one program of my own. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu