Re: libedit replacement for libreadline

[Max Khon]

hi, there!

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn 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 may be misunderstanding what you mean here, but I don't think
> we should replace libreadline with libedit.  However, I do find
> this very interesting, as some of my friends and I have a program
> that we're going to switch from "gnu" to "bsd" licensing, and it
> would be nice if we could use this libedit instead of libreadline.

I read on pgsql-hackers mailinglist that only static linking with
libreadline will infect your binaries with GPL virus. 
btw PostgreSQL already has support for NetBSD's libedit

/fjoe


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