[Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Zachary Pincus wrote:

> This is for Bob Ippolito -

Well it's really for Ronald, I didn't build it.  I have no idea.

> What version of readline comes with the Universal MacPython 2.4.3
> release? And is it statically-linked, or is there a readline dylib
> somewhere in the python framework?
>
> I ask because Michael Broe reported some problems (see below) with
> IPython that I had tracked down to issues with readline 5.1.
> (Basically, the patches to readline 5.1 need to be applied.) It is
> thus of interest as to what version of readline is supplied with
> MacPython, and whether it is statically or dynamically linked.

It's static.

-bob