Re: pkg/58875: python: terminal colours broke in some applications

["Christos Zoulas via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58875; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Aleksey Cheusov
 <cheusov%netbsd.org@localhost>, Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>, Jonathan Perkin
 <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/58875: python: terminal colours broke in some applications
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:36:23 -0500

 On 2024-12-05 10:29 am, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 > [cc pkgsrc-branch steward du jour jperkin}
 > 
 > The attached patch resolves the problem by using libreadline
 > unconditionally.  Maybe in the future if libedit is changed to support
 > colours (which christos tells me it does not right now) we can put the
 > option back, but until then I think we should have applications work
 > out of the box.
 > 
 > OK to commit?
 
 I think it does support colors in the same way readline does according 
 to this:
 https://wiki.hackzine.org/development/misc/readline-color-prompt.html
 
 -- 
 christos