Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Hi Christian,
Christian Maeder wrote:
...Even better if the current package readline is renamed to old-readline and readline-compat to readline.
I have been trying to understand why you want to do that. What would we gain?
On Macs I want Shellac-readline to use editline, under linux we don't have editline, so there I want to continue to use Shellac-readline as it is now. But I don't want to use different Haskell packages for different platforms (for the same project). On Macs, the only change I had to make to the Shellac-readline package was to replace "readline >= 1.0" with "editline >= 0.1" in Shellac-readline.cabal and "System.Console.Readline" with "System.Console.Editline.Readline" in src/System/Console/Shell/Backend/Readline.hs These changes were not necessary if readline-compat supplied a module System.Console.Readline and would be named "readline". (A better name for old-readline would be GPL-readline, though) I wonder how many other packages would work without changes and how many would break, because readline-compat supplies only a part of the old readline. Depending on what the ghc team and the library maintainers decide, either "readline" has to be changed to "readline-compat" in *.cabal or (worse) we get packages Shellac-readline and Shellac-editline or (more worse) Shellac-readline stays as is and I have to fiddle with editline or readline on Macs myself (like now). HTH Christian