From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040A5BC6B; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:04:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHCk80bAXQInemdsb2JhbACOGwIJCg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,284,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1203503" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2007 20:06:00 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8LI5ACL024533 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:05:10 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACOl80bLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOGwIBAQcEBg8Y X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,284,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1549297" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2007 20:05:58 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACOl80Z5LHvc/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,284,1186324200"; d="scan'208";a="195449359" Received: from ppp121-44-123-220.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.123.220]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2007 03:35:52 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: readline license (was: [ANN] coThreads 0.10) From: skaller To: Xavier Leroy Cc: Matthew Hannigan , Zheng Li , caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <46F3F25E.8020202@inria.fr> References: <87lkb5fe3f.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <87sl5d8cgd.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <46F174D9.5060900@ujf-grenoble.fr> <877imm2z7h.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190249430.6642.1.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920142938.d48552f2.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1190272316.23116.34.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920175233.a510630b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <87abrhka16.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190284989.6770.28.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920104420.GB25394@localhost.localdomain> <1190300562.6036.0.camel@rosella.wigram> <46F3F25E.8020202@inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:05:50 +1000 Message-Id: <1190397950.6009.3.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46F407D6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; readline:01 0200,:01 readline:01 ocaml:01 toplevel:01 0.10:98 sourceforge:01 gpl:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml:02 caml:02 groups:02 linking:02 shorter:04 On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 18:33 +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > >>Surely that's not a good reason anymore; there are non-GPL > >>workalikes to readline(). > > > > > > Well one might ask Inria why they don't use it? > > (Just an aside: please say "the Caml development team" rather than > "Inria", these are two different things.) Sorry! Hmm .. is there a shorter form you'd find appropriate? > So, yes, readline being GPL is a serious obstacle to using it within > the OCaml toplevel. More details in this old thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/e7266ab6e6df91e7/e5ce04a21c80cac0 > > This said, rlwrap works pretty well and I don't see many advantages to > linking directly with readline. I had no idea this program existed. I tried it an am impressed. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net