Aaron Patterson wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:43 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.
> 
> IIRC, ruby on OSX links against EditLine (libedit) instead of readline. 
> libedit uses a BSD license.  Could we just depend on libedit instead of
> readline?

editline doesn't support multibyte nor Unicode.

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