(my previous mail went to the bugs list by accident)
Christian Maeder wrote:
> I would like to know from package maintainers if there packages can be
> easily ported from libreadline to libedit.
>
> The best indication for this would be if the package is also happy with
> a restricted interface o
Christian Maeder wrote:
> 3. if ghci is going to use editline... then readline would not
> need to be a core package und users might need to
> install package readline explicitly.
OK, I get it.
Even if we leave readline as it is, so that the package system will
theoretically not force the person
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> We should not cause people's programs to break silently by
> changing a fundamental API, unless there is no alternative.
> In this case there is a reasonable alternative. Anyone who wants
> to change over to editline - native or readline-compatible - can
> easily do so, at th
Christian Maeder wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
It would be a bad idea to remove functionality from the readline
package. It's a binding to the GNU readline library, and as such it does
a fine job.
I only want to move (not remove).
I don't think it's necessary to remove (or move) anything from r
Christian Maeder wrote:
>>> Where are the users that use the functionality not supported by
>>> editline's emulation layer? (Shout now or be quiet ever after)
> I only wanted to find out which user group would need to change readline
> to editline and (if following my suggestion) which group read
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Christian Maeder:
>> Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
>>> Christian Maeder:
1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface that
can be
implemented using libeditline _or_ libreadline. If this package is call
"readline" (with a new versio
Christian Maeder:
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Christian Maeder:
1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface that
can be
implemented using libeditline _or_ libreadline. If this package is
call
"readline" (with a new version number) most libraries i.e. like
Shellac
would
Judah Jacobson wrote:
> On OS X 10.4, I have readline.h,v 1.11 as the libedit readline
> compatibility header. Can you please try linking a simple program
> that uses System.Console.Editline.Readline on your Solaris machine and
> see if it throws up any link errors? If so, I may be able to fix
>
On Jan 21, 2008 2:40 AM, Christian Maeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Judah Jacobson wrote:
> > I think it will be much simpler if we keep the readline and editline
> > packages as they are now, and possibly add a third readline-compat
> > package which can use either one as a dependency. Then an
Simon Marlow wrote:
> It would be a bad idea to remove functionality from the readline
> package. It's a binding to the GNU readline library, and as such it does
> a fine job.
I only want to move (not remove).
> For convenience, we would like there to be an API that can be supported
> by both rea
Christian Maeder wrote:
Depending on what the ghc team and the library maintainers decide,
either "readline" has to be changed to "readline-compat" in *.cabal or
(worse) we get packages Shellac-readline and Shellac-editline or (more
worse) Shellac-readline stays as is and I have to fiddle with e
Christian Maeder wrote:
> Depending on what the ghc team and the library maintainers decide,
> "readline" has to be changed to "readline-compat" in *.cabal
Maybe someone could point out how the conditional build-depends entry
would look like in Shellac-readline.cabal if readline is to be used for
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Christian Maeder wrote:
>> ...Even better if the current package readline is renamed to old-readline
>> and readline-compat to readline.
>
> I have been trying to understand why you want to do
> that. What would we gain?
On Macs I want Shellac-readline to
Hi Christian,
Christian Maeder wrote:
> ...Even better if the current package readline is renamed to old-readline
> and readline-compat to readline.
I have been trying to understand why you want to do
that. What would we gain?
Thanks,
Yitz
___
Glasgow-
Judah Jacobson wrote:
> I think it will be much simpler if we keep the readline and editline
> packages as they are now, and possibly add a third readline-compat
> package which can use either one as a dependency. Then any project
> (including GHC) can choose which of those packages to use, based
On Jan 17, 2008 1:19 AM, Christian Maeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Judah Jacobson wrote:
> > - System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs provided
> > by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of
> > System.Console.Readline).
>
> I would like to see a restructuring of the old
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Christian Maeder:
>> 1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface that can be
>> implemented using libeditline _or_ libreadline. If this package is call
>> "readline" (with a new version number) most libraries i.e. like Shellac
>> would not need modif
Christian Maeder:
Judah Jacobson wrote:
- System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs
provided
by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of
System.Console.Readline).
I would like to see a restructuring of the old readline
package:
1. a _new_ readline package that only cont
Alex Young:
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the
editline
backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler,
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the editline
backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler, it must be poss
On Jan 17, 2008 2:08 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> I would hope that ghc will link to editline-ext on all platforms.
Unfortunately it seems that editline cannot currently be build on
Windows. I have tried to build the editline source from
http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ with MinGW/msys. Pdcurses cou
On Jan 17, 2008 6:00 AM, Christian Maeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> > Christian Maeder wrote:
> >> The extended packages "2" could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
> >>"1" remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
> >> and readline under
Christian Maeder wrote:
> ghc will link to "libedit" if it is available on your platform, but the
> Haskell package will still have the name "readline" and give ghc all the
> functionality it needs (without licence problems).
> Only the current readline Haskell package needs "libreadline" and
> sup
Isaac Dupree wrote:
> GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
> code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the editline
> backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler, it must be possible for
users to c
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> Christian Maeder wrote:
>> The extended packages "2" could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
>>"1" remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
>> and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
>
> I would hope that ghc w
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Christian Maeder wrote:
The extended packages "2" could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
"1" remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
I would hope that ghc will link to
Christian Maeder wrote:
> The extended packages "2" could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
>"1" remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
> and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
I would hope that ghc will link to editline-ext on al
Judah Jacobson wrote:
> - System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs provided
> by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of
> System.Console.Readline).
I would like to see a restructuring of the old readline
package:
1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface
Hello,
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:05, Judah Jacobson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have managed to build ghc using the initial release of the editline
package:
>
> Hackage link:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/editline-0.1
> Haddock: http://code.haskell.org/editline/di
Judah Jacobson:
Hackage link:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/editline-0.1
Haddock: http://code.haskell.org/editline/dist/doc/html/editline/
As I've mentioned before, there are two independent modules:
- System.Console.Editline is a very basic (and experimental) inter
Hi all,
I have managed to build ghc using the initial release of the editline package:
Hackage link:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/editline-0.1
Haddock: http://code.haskell.org/editline/dist/doc/html/editline/
As I've mentioned before, there are two independent modu
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