On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> In that case, what I think we ought to do is not add the DP paths
> (i.e. /opt/local) to setup.py specifically to get its readline, but
> instead to pick up any libraries that happen to be in DP in
> preference to those in OSX by default. If tha
On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> The import of the Ghostscript case is that the FSF considers a
> Makefile stanza clearly intended to cause linkage to a GPL library,
> even if optional and supplied by the user, to create a work derived
> from that library. A "GNU readline
On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:47 PM, James Y Knight wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Aahz wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we just all agree that RMS is an asshole now? Bah.
>>
>> "Citing RMS's insanity is a great way to get my blood steaming." --
>> GvR
>
> Ya
On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:47 PM, James Y Knight wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Aahz wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we just all agree that RMS is an asshole now? Bah.
>>
>> "Citing RMS's insanity is a great way to get my blood steaming." --
>> GvR
>
>
On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Aahz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> Can we just all agree that RMS is an asshole now? Bah.
>
> "Citing RMS's insanity is a great way to get my blood steaming." --
> GvR
Ya know, you don't *have* to use his software. For example, pytho
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Can we just all agree that RMS is an asshole now? Bah.
"Citing RMS's insanity is a great way to get my blood steaming." --GvR
--
Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
"19. A language that doesn't affect the w
On Jan 18, 2006, at 1:31 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:25, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Unless rms has changed his position on this, or there has been
>> relevant legislation or a court decision in the meantime,
>> explicitly requiring or checking for "real" libread
Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a
Anthony> "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and
Anthony> refuse to use it if so.
>> FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, ...
Didn't Python's readline module work with libedit once upon a time?
On 1/17/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Anthony" == Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect
> Anthony> that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful
> Anthony> "libedit" and refu
> "Anthony" == Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> Python's license is GPL-compatible, so this isn't an
Anthony> issue.
I'm sorry, but you seem to misunderstand what "GPL compatibility"
means. It is a _one-way_ street. A license is GPL-compatible if its
terms permit
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:25, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Unless rms has changed his position on this, or there has been
> relevant legislation or a court decision in the meantime,
> explicitly requiring or checking for "real" libreadline, even as a
> user option, risks rms's wrath. (Of cou
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:25:03PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect
> Anthony> that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful
> Anthony> "libedit" and refuse to use it if so.
> FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, an
> "Anthony" == Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect
Anthony> that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful
Anthony> "libedit" and refuse to use it if so.
FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, and rms made a po
On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I
>>> doing something wrong?
>>
>> There are definitely seriou
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I
> > doing something wrong?
>
> There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4.
> I've hit them too
On 1/17/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing
> > something wrong?
>
> There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've
> hit them too but
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing
> something wrong?
There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've
hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet. I'm far from an
expert
On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing
> something wrong?
Mac OS X doesn't ship with readline. It ships with BSD libedit
symlinked to readline. Not good enough for Python. You need a third
party copy.
I
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