Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
Date: 2005-12-03 15:27:37
Message-ID: 200512031527.jB3FRbX08195@candle.pha.pa.us
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Michael Paesold wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I wanted to distinguish libreadline from readline-functionality. Why is
> > it Readline?
>
> "The GNU Readline Library" is usually referred to as "Readline", not
> "libreadline". The offical name for "libedit" is really "Libedit".
>
> See e.g.:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/
> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html
>
> IMHO libreadline does not sound good.

OK, I call it GNU Readline now:

--with-bonjour build with Bonjour support
--with-openssl build with OpenSSL support
--with-libedit-preferred prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline
--without-readline do not use GNU Readline / BSD Libedit line editing
--without-zlib do not use Zlib

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