From: "Cs. Henk" <csaba-ml@...>
Date: 2005-03-10T11:03:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Irb enhancements

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:45:50AM +0900, Sam Roberts wrote:
> 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/

Certainly it's good to hear of such things -- I knew only of libedit as
an alternative for readline --, it's just what's the ruby in it? When
you told, "Wasn't someone looking at rewriting readline so that we could
have a non GPLed readline implemenation for Ruby?", you meant that
someone writes an alternative of readline and then it's left to the ruby
community to wrap it? I tought someone does work on something directly
for ruby...

Btw, I heard of attempts of using libedit with ruby instead of readline.
I don't have the link right here, but it's easy to find it in Google's
group search on comp.lang.ruby. Someone had a patchset for this, but the
link to that was dead. Maybe that could be found with some more effort.

Csaba