Re: [HACKERS] libedit-preferred by default

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2007-28-05 at 15:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: readline has much more functionality Fair enough, that's probably a good enough reason to leave things as they are for now. -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your

[HACKERS] libedit-preferred by default

2007-05-28 Thread Neil Conway
If both libedit and libreadline are available, we currently default to linking against libreadline, unless the --with-libedit-preferred configure option is used. Why do we default to preferring GNU readline over libedit? libedit is clearly preferable for license reasons. You could make the

Re: [HACKERS] libedit-preferred by default

2007-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If both libedit and libreadline are available, we currently default to linking against libreadline, unless the --with-libedit-preferred configure option is used. Why do we default to preferring GNU readline over libedit? readline has much more