Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/24/1997 21:31:03
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

:  > Why are we adding this?  libedit gives us the same functionality, is
:  > already in the tree, and is not copylefted?  I thought our goal was to
:  > add as little new copylefted software as possible?
: 
: It's needed by the new GDB.  Note that the current GDB source has
: an old version of readline in the sources.

Why not a consideration of trying out the readline emulator for libedit
someone posted a short time ago?

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