Would the easiest solution be to make a patch to readline for
Win32, and only allow Win32 to link to readline if that patch
is in readline, and spit out a compile error if readline
doesn't have that patch.
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a problem
there, this
Magnus Hagander wrote:
Would the easiest solution be to make a patch to readline for
Win32, and only allow Win32 to link to readline if that patch
is in readline, and spit out a compile error if readline
doesn't have that patch.
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a problem
there, this is a separate file that you ship along with it.
Well, the problem is that it handles backslash incorrectly. We could
patch that in the
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a problem
there, this is a separate file that you ship along with it.
Well, the problem is that it handles backslash incorrectly. We could
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a
problem there, this is a separate file that you ship along with it.
Well, the problem is that it handles backslash incorrectly.
We could
patch that in the readline source rather than playing with a
configuaration
Magnus Hagander wrote:
What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a
problem there, this is a separate file that you ship along with it.
Well, the problem is that it handles backslash incorrectly.
We could
patch that in the readline source rather than playing
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
At that point, psql becomes GPL, no question.
Which means it's not happening, no?
To clearify, I meant the psql binary becomes GPL.
There is no such thing as the binary becomes GPL. GPL applies to
the source code.
When we
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
At that point, psql becomes GPL, no question.
Which means it's not happening, no?
To clearify, I meant the psql binary becomes GPL.
There is no such thing as the binary becomes GPL. GPL applies to
the
Bruce Momjian wrote:
When we build psql with readline, which is our default on many
platforms, we are already be GPL'ing psql, at least according to the
copyright holders, FSF.
No, we are NOT doing that, not even according to FSF. Our usage of
a pre-installed readline library falls
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To clearify, I meant the psql binary becomes GPL.
There is no such thing as the binary becomes GPL. GPL applies to
the source code.
That's an odd thing to say. The binary is as much covered by copyright as the
source and can't be distributed without
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:19:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
When we build psql with readline, which is our default on many
platforms, we are already be GPL'ing psql, at least according to the
copyright holders, FSF.
When we link to a readline
Would the easiest solution be to make a patch to readline for Win32, and
only allow Win32 to link to readline if that patch is in readline, and
spit out a compile error if readline doesn't have that patch.
As far as the license, psql spits out a copyright notice as it starts.
It would be a
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell. At least
pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
Mine has tab completion adapted from psql :). There are also commands
for
John DeSoi schrieb:
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell. At least
pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
Mine has tab completion adapted from psql :). There are
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab
completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
At least
pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
Mine has tab completion adapted from psql :). There are also
commands for specific completion types, e.g. complete
Magnus Hagander said:
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab
completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
At least
pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
Mine has tab completion adapted from psql :). There are also
commands for specific completion types,
Well, we should *at least* provide it from the source
build. Since it
does work (with a small kludge, but it does work).
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab
completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
At least
pgadmin doesn't.
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This has been debated ad nauseam in the past. The consensus, bar a
few people with more advanced paranoia than I suffer from,
is that we
can ;-)
I don't think it is good practice to ship
Robert Treat said:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
4) Can we ship linked with readline in the installer? If not, can we
ship
a readline-linked binary at all, or just the source? Considering
readline drags along the GPL, and not just the LGPL.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Sun 1/1/2006 11:51 PM
To: Magnus Hagander
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql readline win32
4) Can we ship linked with readline in the installer?
If not, can we ship
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Lane
Sent: Mon 1/2/2006 3:30 AM
To: Robert Treat
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andrew Dunstan; Magnus Hagander
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql readline win32
(Of course, you could also treat the Windows installer as being
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Magnus Hagander
Sent: Mon 1/2/2006 8:08 AM
To: Tom Lane; Robert Treat
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Andrew Dunstan
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql readline win32
Though we do ship GPL stuff in it already - postgis
I don't think it is good practice to ship packaged software that is
statically linked to a gpl library and then claim that
your package
is bsd licensed. If I were trying to use the windows
installer in a
commercial application, I sure wouldn't want that liability.
Why should
Anyone for trying to port BSD libedit to work on Windows?
Maybe just let it be on Windows is acceptable. I am currently
happy with my psql without readline support on Windows, but
on Unix that's hard. If Windows users want more advanced
client, there are a bunch of GUI tools.
Well,
2) Should we ship a file of standard bindings. We're not
going to get it complete, but we could get some of the most
common ones in europe at least (in sweden, this would for
example include [EMAIL PROTECTED]|). Which would help people a lot.
Yes we should, at least for Windows -
Magnus Hagander writes:
2) Should we ship a file of standard bindings. We're not
going to get it complete, but we could get some of the most
common ones in europe at least (in sweden, this would for
example include [EMAIL PROTECTED]|). Which would help people a lot.
Yes we should,
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This has been debated ad nauseam in the past. The consensus, bar a few
people with more advanced paranoia than I suffer from, is that we can ;-)
I don't
Greg Stark said:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This has been debated ad nauseam in the past. The consensus, bar a
few people with more advanced paranoia than I suffer from, is that
we can
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:27:48 -0600 (CST)
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our BSD license is recognised as a GPL-compatible license.
Recognized by who? The only two entities that I can think of that
matter would be GNU itself or the courts.
--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy@druid.net |
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The readline home page at
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html says:
Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to use Readline in a
program that you
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Well, we should *at least* provide it from the source build. Since it
does work (with a small kludge, but it does work).
Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab completion!
(which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
Tom Lane said:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The readline home page at
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html says:
Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to use
Readline in a
On Monday 02 January 2006 18:21, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Tom Lane said:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The readline home page at
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html says:
Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License,
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The page links to this: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which
lists the BSD licence without the advertising clause as a GPL-compatible
free software license, of which it says: This means you can combine a
module which was released under
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The page links to this: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which
lists the BSD licence without the advertising clause as a GPL-compatible
free software license, of which it says: This means you can combine a
module which
Magnus Hagander wrote:
Considering we have a fix, I think we need to re-enable readline on win32, and
document this. However, there are a couple of things to decide on first:
1) Should it be made default? As it requires you to include this file to work,
perhaps it should be set to
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
4) Can we ship linked with readline in the installer? If not, can we ship
a readline-linked binary at all, or just the source? Considering readline
drags along the GPL, and not just the LGPL. (We can link either
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This has been debated ad nauseam in the past. The consensus, bar a few
people with more advanced paranoia than I suffer from, is that we can ;-)
I don't think it is good practice to ship packaged
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Anyone for trying to port BSD libedit to work on Windows?
Maybe just let it be on Windows is acceptable. I am currently happy with my
psql without readline support on Windows, but on Unix that's hard. If
Windows users want more advanced client, there are a
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