Christian Maeder:
Judah Jacobson wrote:
- System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs provided by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of System.Console.Readline).
I would like to see a restructuring of the old readline package:
1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface that can be implemented using libeditline _or_ libreadline. If this package is call "readline" (with a new version number) most libraries i.e. like Shellac would not need modifications.
I disagree. Readline should stay as it is. (Why force existing readline users who use functionality not supported by editline's emulation layer to change the package they are using?) Instead, we should have a new module whose interface coincides with editline's readline emulation. Everybody who wants to use editline when available and readline only if editline is not available can then use that new module (which I called EditReadline in my previous post). GHC will be one of these programs. Manuel