Re: Integrating editline with ghc

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:41 +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

To summarise,

* I don't think it is feasible to entirely drop readline from ghci (as some widely used Linux distributions, eg, Fedora 7 and Solaris doesn't support sufficiently recent versions of editline).

Indeed. I tried to build the editline package that was just uploaded to hackage and discovered that Gentoo does not package the editline C library at all. Duncan