[Pythonmac-SIG] Retroactively adding readline support to OS X Python 2.3b1

[Bob Ippolito]

Almost equivalent to b.bum's readline-0.0.0 hack, this one downloads 
readline 4.3, compiles a static libreadline.a, and link the python 2.3 
readline.c against that.  This avoids any 
PrivateFrameworks/readline.framework version compatibility issues 
because it's linked to a static version of readline, so it should be 
safe to redistribute the resultant binary so long as you comply with 
the relevant licenses.  It should also be safe to redistribute this 
"source" archive under the same license as Python.

It's available at:  http://undefined.org/python/readline-0.0.1.tgz

It should work for anyone who has Python 2.3b1 or later.  It's been 
reported to work for Python 2.3b1 on OS X 10.2 and the Apple Python 
provided with developer preview of Panther.

-bob