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

[Marc Prud'h. <ma...@ap...>]

Bernhard-

> this sounds great - I thought it could not be possible. I will have a 
> look at
> it this weekend.

Excellent. Let me know what you think.

Note that it currently has a lot of problems on Windows ... I hope to 
be able to get it work on that platform in the near future.

> 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).

Sure. It's LGPL, so you are certainly free to do anything you like with 
it.

>
> 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
>
>
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