From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T17:51:51+09:00
Subject: Re: OSX Tiger comes with Ruby 1.8.2!

* Luc Heinrich <lucsky@mac.com> [0409 07:09]:
> Richard Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is GREAT NEWS.
> 
> Yeah well, irb is still compiled without readline support. :/

Readline is problematic license-wise, I think?

If you build and install readline (and the ruby readline lib), irb
will 'just work' - you won't need to recompile ruby or irb.

(yes, ok, you'll need gcc and ruby source to build the readline lib.
But they could always be packaged as a gem or something - does
rubygems support binary gems yet?)

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