#15 sqlsh.rb require Readline broken since ruby 1.8.0
The interactive shell sqlsh.rb requires the the Readline
class from irb.
The class is not available any more in the latests
distributions of irb, cf. the ruby 1.8.0 versions.
(1.8.0-10 installer package for Windows)
The code tries to avoid some dependencies in one place:
begin
require "readline"
$use_readline = true
rescue LoadError
$use_readline = false
end
but fails to avoid the indirect dependency through irb
require "irb"
require "irb/completion"
$irb_completion = Readline.completion_proc
A first workaround is
if $use_readline
require "irb/completion" # even irb is not clean in itself
$irb_completion = Readline.completion_proc
end
But things get a little bit messy then ...
Congratulation to your excellent work!
Mittie
