my vote to go for GPL and readline. As you said compatibility is guaranteed and everybody knows it.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 9:23 AM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > at yesterday's PilCon it turned out that pil21 has a serious licence > problem. > > A major design decision of pil21 was to use readline(3) instead of the > self- > rolled @lib/led.l from pil64/pil32. > > The reason was compatibility with the rest of the world (readline supports > both > vi- and emacs-mode right out of the box, uses the same ~/.inputrc as bash > and > other tools, and everybody is used to it), and high configurability. > > > I took a look at editline() / libedit. Very different API! It does not > even use > ~/.inputrc but requires a separate ~/.editrc. > > I don't see that it supports all the features pil21 needs (hooks to various > functions for signal handling, background tasks and display control (see > pil21/src/lib.c). > > > Better go back to GPL with pil21? > > I'm getting fed up with these licence wars! > > ☹/ A!ex > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > >
