From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-03-10T09:45:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Irb enhancements

Quoting csaba-ml@beastie.creo.hu, on Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:29:54AM +0900:
> > Wasn't someone looking at rewriting readline so that we could have a non 
> > GPLed readline implemenation for Ruby?  In addition to the licensing 
> > issue, this would sure make lives easier for OS X users.
> 
> It's interesting. Is there any pointer to this? GPL, non-GPL, pyrepl
> port, doing it from scratch: either case what would make sense then
> would be doing it in pure ruby...

FYI - a readline-like library I used with the rc shell, worked well, to
my knowledge:

  http://vons.free.fr/tools/

License:

   Vrl is copyright (C)1996-2000 by Gert-Jan Vons <gert-jan@bigfoot.com>.
   You can re-use this code if you want, as long as you give me credit.


Cheers,
Sam