[Java-readline-devel] Re: java-readline and jline

[Bernhard B. <ma...@ba...>]

Hi Marc,

this sounds great - I thought it could not be possible. I will have a look at 
it this weekend. If in any way possible, it would be great if we could 
integrate it into java-readline (users already have asked for a native 
implementation).

Thanks, Bernhard

> Bernhard-
>
> I just release a new version of my JLine library at
> http://jline.sf.net. It is a pure-java implementation of GNU readline.
> It works pretty well (it has command history, tab completion, and line
> editing), but it is not as stable/robust as the native libraries, and
> currently works only on UNIX platforms.
>
> Looking at the source code for java-readline, it looks like it might be
> possible to write an adaptor to have it act as one of the
> implementations that java-readline can use. This would be a good
> intermediate between not having readline/editline support on the
> platform (either because it is too difficult to build, or if you do not
> want your users to have to install extra software) and the pain that is
> a pure-java System.in console utility.
>
> FYI, I initially wrote this because I couldn't get the java-readline
> native binaries to build on Mac OS 10.2, and I wanted something that
> would work with another one of my projects (http://sqlline.sf.net).
>
> Let me know if you would be interested in working together on this.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>      -Marc