On 1/13/08, Isaac Dupree
Judah Jacobson wrote:
I think that in an effort to clarify matters, I made them more muddled. :-)
By "they don't overlap" I meant that neither header (histedit.h vs. readline.h) imports the other and that they can be used independently. But *both* headers are present on *all* distributions of editline, not just Apple's. Implementing #2 is sufficient to getting editline working on all platforms.
interesting... how do all platforms, even ones with Readline installed in a traditional Unix filesystem layout, manage to distribute Editline also with readline/readline.h? Shouldn't there be a non-overlapping header name that exports the same compatibility interface?
That's a good question; now that I think about it, I'm not sure of the
answer. The header might be renamed, e.g. to