Thanks for the answer, I actually just saw this today, it went into my
spam folder for some reason.
Anyway, I tried to build readline 5.2 and it wasn't that bad. I got
the source for the libreadline-gplv2-dev Debian package
(https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libreadline-gplv2-dev). This is
Gabor,
as you can see the x86_64 readline is a very old build 5.2-14 - it is the last
version released under GPL-2. Later versions are to my best knowledge
license-incompatible since they are released under GPL-3 only and thus do not
allow the use in GPL-2 software. The arm64 version
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 7:00 PM Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
[...]
> AFAIK the reason for not distributing readline with binary distributions
> of R is perceived licence restrictions.
So is the license different for x86_64? Because those builds come with readline:
❯ R-4.1 -q -e
On 03/11/2021 12:21, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
Anyone else noticed some weirdness with the arm build when the prompt
has ANSI escape codes?
E.g. in a terminal run this
options(prompt = "\033[1m> \033[0m")
and then at the new prompt type in some longer word and press CTRL+A.
Longer than what?
The
Anyone else noticed some weirdness with the arm build when the prompt
has ANSI escape codes?
E.g. in a terminal run this
options(prompt = "\033[1m> \033[0m")
and then at the new prompt type in some longer word and press CTRL+A.
The cursor does not go back to the beginning of the line, probably
