Sun supply GNU readline on the Companion Disc (from the Freeware collection [1]) as SFWrline. This is what I use for compiling Python with readline support [2].
It would be handy if this package were included as part of the OS distribution. Cheers, Chris Miles [1] http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xml [2] http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/articles/building-python-with- readline-on-solaris-10 On 11 Sep 2007, at 03:26, Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > Hello Webstackers, > > How does one package external dependencies that a webstack component > depends on? Case in question: The interactive Ruby Interpretor > (irb) is > only barely usable without GNU readline 5.2, and readline is also used > in rails(for script/console). > > The problem is, readline is not packaged in Solaris, at least it > wasn't > as of snv_71. > > Does someone know if there are plans to include readline, so that the > Ruby extensions can link to them? Else, should we make a case to add > GNU Readline into Nevada along with Ruby/Rails? >
