On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Brian Mastenbrook <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/05/2012 06:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> >> You should look at the `readline' library [1], or at Eli's excellent >> XREPL library [2], both of which enable line editing. > > > Out of curiosity, why isn't XREPL enabled by default? I think most people > expect a command-line REPL to be readline enabled these days, and XREPL > includes a lot of other useful conveniences that would help Racket make a > good first impression.
Our interpretation of the readline license is that doing this would mean Racket (at least the command line) would need be distributed under the GPL. See http://docs.racket-lang.org/readline/#%28part._readline-license%29 . -- sam th [email protected] ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
