Re: pkg/41943 (readline 6.0 is GPLv3.)

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
To: dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41943 (readline 6.0 is GPLv3.)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:37:25 +0900 (JST)

 In message <20090902072748.GB26846%netbsd.org@localhost>
        on Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:27:48 +0000,
        David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:20:03AM +0000, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
 >  >  2. Discussion is continued and no explicit result yet.
 >  >     (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2000)
 > 
 > Should we mark this PR suspended until the upstream guys reach a
 > conclusion?
 I agree with you.
 
 >  >  3. ruby18-readline package already uses libedit if available.  But
 >  >     compared with readline, libedit lacks some functions and support of
 >  >     multibyte characters.  I didn't realized about multibyte characters
 >  >     and I'll add an option which select readline library to
 >  >     ruby-readline.
 >  >  
 >  >  So, something safer solution might be keeping readline<6.0...
 > 
 > Yeah, I was thinking we'd need to add devel/readline5 and use that.
 It isn't very happy solution and it may happen to another packages.  :-(
 (but it might be no choice...)
 
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 Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>