s> Apparently the readline library in MacOSX isn't really readline.
s> It's a renamed libedit. Not having encountered this deception
s> before, Python's build procedure doesn't know to test the capability
s> of readline. I suggest you just comment out the readline checks in
s> setup.py.
Piet> libedit (editline) is a different library with a similar function
Piet> as readline, but not compatible with it. It has a BSD license. It
Piet> is often used instead of readline for non-GPL software.
True. I believe it was written by Rich Salz several years ago. Python used
to work with it, but eventually started using some readline functionality
which libedit doesn't provide. I don't recall what that is.
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