On 9/12/07, Dermot McCluskey <Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com> wrote: > Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a planned time line for inclusion of GNU readline into Nevada? > > It's held up while we draw up new guidelines for GPL > software, specifically whether we can install GPL > libraries in the default locations.
Who is "we" in this case? What are the issues with installing in the default locations? > I'd like to think it will be resolved soon, but I cannot > make any commitments on when it will be integrated. > > If your app is also GPL, you can statically link readline > - that's what projects (eg libvirt) had to do. But it's > not ideal for multiple apps to be doing this. > > afaik, the BSD alternative implementation of readline > is not 100% compatible, so you may need to re-code > slightly if you use it. > > > - Dermot > > _______________________________________________ > sfwnv-discuss mailing list > sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
