Re: gnu readline / license

[Johannes Z. <joh...@ze...>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:04:17AM +0200, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > Debian's gnuplot comes w/o gnu readline, which is very bad in my
> > opinion. The reason is a license problem, which is documented by the
> > package maintainer Thimo Neubauer <th...@de...> (in
> > /usr/share/doc/gnuplot/README.Debian):
> 
> Solution to this problem is to implement <TAB>-expansion of filenames in
> gnuplot's readline library. There was some discussion about it few years
> ago, but nobody did it.
> 	TAB is the only difference, I guess?

no. all the history goodies are missing, e.g. searching backwards in the
history by <ctrl-r> ... I guess we'd have to rewrite libreadline.

-- 
Johannes