On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, 16:12 Ralf Hemmecke, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/23/20 9:50 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > clef (it probably pre-dates Unicode!) should have been removed from
> > Fricas years ago
> > - but it seems that preference is for drowning in technical debt here.
> :-)
>
> Unfortunately if FriCAS stays under BSD license, it cannot use use
> readline as ist is GPL.


this is a very hardline licensing view, IMHO.

Anyway, libedit, a Netbsd implementation of most of readline, is under BSD,
and is probably enough


Anyway, we have enough good interfaces, emacs,
> jfricas, texmacx, that I would just dump that clef code and free us from
> legacy.
>
> It would be easy for any user to just type "fricas -rl" and get readline
> support with very little friction on his/her side.
>
> Waldek, what about removing CLEF?
>
> Ralf
>
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