Re: pkg/41943 (readline 6.0 is GPLv3.)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:20:03AM +0000, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
 >  2. Discussion is continued and no explicit result yet.
 >     (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2000)

Should we mark this PR suspended until the upstream guys reach a
conclusion?

 >  3. ruby18-readline package already uses libedit if available.  But
 >     compared with readline, libedit lacks some functions and support of
 >     multibyte characters.  I didn't realized about multibyte characters
 >     and I'll add an option which select readline library to
 >     ruby-readline.
 >  
 >  So, something safer solution might be keeping readline<6.0...

Yeah, I was thinking we'd need to add devel/readline5 and use that.

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