Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a planned time line for inclusion of GNU readline into Nevada?
>
> The context of this query is an effort to incorporate Ruby/Rails into
> Solaris Express Developer Edition. The interactive Ruby Interpretor, irb, and
> also Rails, make use of readline(through Ruby) - so having readline in place
> will benefit our effort as well.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -ps
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Check out the SAC/PSARC archives:
2007/188 GNU readline waiting need spec 04/11/2007
This has been hung-up on legal concerns about GPL (rather than LGPL).
There is a very similar implementation available from BSD. My suggestion
is to use it, but the project submitter didn't like that suggestion. :-)
- jek3
