Re: checking for a working System.Console.Readline

2004-05-13 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:47:23PM +1000, Bernard James POPE wrote: > Hi all, > > In buddha I've started using System.Console.Readline for the command > line (which btw is very nice, thanks to those who made the binding). > > Buddha uses autconf to configure itself. I want to check whether the >

Re: checking for a working System.Console.Readline

2004-05-13 Thread Ketil Malde
>| readline Since you mention readline - I have a rather tiny nit to pick: ghci happily completes filenames starting with ~ (indicating home directory), but file operations typically don't grok it. As I said, hardly an earth shattering show stopper, but a small wart that might be easy to remove?

RE: checking for a working System.Console.Readline

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| One option is to ask ghc-package to list the available packages and | see if readline appears. We're hatching a plan, as part of the library infrastructure project, to do just that. Stay tuned. We should emit a draft spec for comment in a couple of weeks. Simon __