[Pythonmac-SIG] updating command line python

[Jack Jansen]

On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 23:47 Europe/Amsterdam, bbum@mac.com wrote:
> It isn't, but thank you.   The sole purpose for the readline module 
> was to be able to add readline support to Apple's [rather lacking] 
> build of Python 2.2 that shipped with OS X.   For any 'normal' Python 
> build, I would think readline would "just work"?
>
> Huh.  On second thought -- I suppose it requires that readline be 
> built and available on the target system before building Python.
>
> Then again, the only person that should find my readline module useful 
> are those that are trying to use readline support after installing a 
> binary version of python that doesn't have readline support compiled 
> in.   If that is the case, then I'll punt -- the distributed builds of 
> Python 2.3 should have readline installed, if built properly, correct?

No, if ever I do a binary build of MacPython I'm not going to include 
readline. Because of the GPL license it carries that might infect the 
whole distribution. And with PackageManager it's easy enough to install 
it separately (that's how I found out your distribution was 2.2-only).
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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