On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Leonard Chin wrote:

> If readline's change in license is the primary reason for reevaluating
> Ruby's licensing,
> why not consider the option of replacing readline?
>
> Although far from mature, Luis Lavena and others were working on a
> pure Ruby clone
> of readline: http://github.com/luislavena/rb-readline/tree/master
>
> With more work, this could provide a reasonable happy alternative.

This seems to be a promising option.  I know I've fielded a lot of  
questions about how to get the arrow keys working in irb over the  
years, which always boil down to a readline build issue.  If we could  
have that work with a pure Ruby install, that would be a nice win.

James Edward Gray II