| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 00:28:26 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=oT72AXsRvtVHkurbDdTMc8qv_c3k22w9-2Ph7@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date
>
> And a third who periodically packages that at http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
I'm really confused between libedit and libeditline. They both appear
to be in Debian and I think they both trace their lineage to the
original BSD library. Was one the NetBSD maintained one and the other
the "upstream"?
> I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has
> a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate
> dependence on the one with an unreasonable license (OpenSSL).
Personally I find there are plenty of technical reasons to run
screaming from OpenSSL anyways.
--
greg
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