From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 27 10:27:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AEE37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6RHRBg44484; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:27:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline Message-ID: <20010727102705.D43542@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010716103351.A81876@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010716031932.A5930@xor.obsecurity.org> <200107161516.f6GFGCT34314@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010716120054.A94139@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010717063825.A21495@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010717063825.A21495@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:38:25AM +0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:38:25AM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > > Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency in > > > > the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of functional > > > > code duplication. > > > > > > I don't, particularly since the two programs which use it are already > > > GNU software, so you haven't actually bought any additional freedom by > > > making such a change. > > > > A third is vinum, which buys some additional freedom :-) > > So lets use it for vinum only leaving gnu soft bug-to-bug compatible with > itself. After re-reading this entire thread, I still agree with Andrey. But is there some reason you are holding back updating libedit for those programs that do use it today (or are non-GPVed and could use libedit)? The LukeM ftp client, needs the fuller NetBSD libedit, so it would be nice to get your patches committed to ours. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message