On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 15:16 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:52:12PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > > > > My selfish suggestion is that we maintain the readline configuration and > > > let the people who originally wanted editline support do the work to > > > maintain that configuration. > > > > Those people are GHC HQ: readline is GPL (not LGPL), so if GHC wants to > > be BSD then it can't use it. > > It's not quite that simple. GHC HQ does not ship readline, it's just > shipping BSD code. If I link ghc against readline then the result must > be distributed in compliance with the GPL, but that's ok, all linux > distros do that. When GHC HQ ship binaries they can configure it to use > editline.
OK, so I should have said "... it can't use it exclusively". But it's still GHC HQ that needs editline support (or a switch to haskeline, or splitting ghci off, or some other solution. But just reverting to readline-only won't work). Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
