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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:34:14 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r360019 - head/lang/ruby19
Message-ID:  <53B2D4F6.3090704@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201407011431.s61EV0iF008865@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201407011431.s61EV0iF008865@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 01.07.2014 18:31, Steve Wills wrote:
>   - Force use of libreadline from ports rather than base, in order to avoid
>     unexpectedly getting readline from ports if it's already installed.
>   - Add patch to work with newer libreadline.
>   - Provide an option to use libedit from ports, avoiding the libedit in base.
>   - Note: libreadline is not BSD licensed and while libedit would be preferable,
>     it seems to have issues with UTF8 still, see ruby bug 9204. Once that's
>     resolved, we can make libedit the default. Similar changes were done to Ruby
>     2.0 and 2.1 in r355890. Also convert to USES=tar:bzip2 while here and cleanup
>     a plist issue.

It works perfectly with readline in the base before. With this change it
is broken, suggesting either to have UTF8 and other compatibility bugs
of libedit or install unneeded readline from ports.

P.S. Never ever consider libedit as readline replacement, it just looks
like.

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