Malcolm Wallace wrote:
I think I am persuaded that this is the most important goal: stability of the API and package interface, for existing clients of readline. If individual projects would like to migrate from using readline to using editline, then those are the ones that should pay the small amount of pain (in using CPP, package configurations, etc) to manage the change.
Anyone else should be totally unaffected.
I would like to know from package maintainers if there packages can be easily ported from libreadline to libedit. The best indication for this would be if the package is also happy with a restricted interface of readline (i.e. readline-compat) or requires the full GNU readline. At least testing this compatibility makes sense using a readline package with a temporarily reduced interface (without the need to change the packages depending on readline.) Christian