Judah Jacobson wrote:
I think it will be much simpler if we keep the readline and editline packages as they are now, and possibly add a third readline-compat package which can use either one as a dependency. Then any project (including GHC) can choose which of those packages to use, based on API requirements and/or license issues.
Could then editline go already into ghc-6.8.3, because interfaces don't change? Re-iterating, I would like to see your package readline-compat and hope it will be sufficient for the packages Shellac and Shellac-readline. (Even better if the current package readline is renamed to old-readline and readline-compat to readline.) I wonder how many hackage packages have readline as build-depends (and how many of them would be content with readline-compat). Which version of editline to you require? Our newest version installed (under Solaris) is: editline.h,v 1.5 Which include files are used on Macs? Cheers Christian