From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-01-11T03:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter

On 10/01/2009, Heesob Park <phasis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  2009/1/10 Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com>:
>
> > On Jan 10, 8:15 am, Heesob Park <pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> 2009/1/10 Roger Pack <r...@doachristianturndaily.info>:>> Anyone knows any web application for bounties? I'm interested in
>  >> >> contribute to this one and also one for Readline!!!
>  >>
>  >> > Yeah I'm in for Readline :)
>  >> > Note that highline has a getc for windows, and cmd is also readline
>  >> > like, so I believe it is possible :)
>  >>
>  >> > -=r
>  >> > As a note I get the same error message Luis does.
>  >>
>  >> I guess you are looking for ruby_readline [1] .
>  >>
>  >
>  > Hello Park,
>  >
>  > Actually I'm looking to an API-compatible replacement, which should
>  > work with IRB and auto complete capabilities.
>  >
>  > Not only that, but a solution that can work across platforms,
>  > including Windows :-)
>  >
>  > There is a solution called RawLine [1] but is not API-compliant with
>  > ReadLine.
>  >
>  > Thank you again for your pointer.
>  >
>  > [1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/rawline/
>  >
>
> I found the pure Perl implementation of the readline libraries called
>  libterm-readline-perl-perl [1]
>
>  I hope some one could port it into Ruby.
>  If no one port it until the end of this month, I will port it.
>

I think the rreadline implementation is compatible. I once tried it
because the readline on Windows was broken, and aside for renaming
something to make irb find it it worked for me.

Thanks

Michal