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Change name from Minix editline to just editline. This also affects

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the library name, from libedit.a to libeditline.a 

Bump version to 1.13.0 to better illustrate it has the same heritage
as the Debian version.

Import the debian/ directory from editline-1.12-5.

Yes, this is a major changeset. :)
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README -*-text-*-
This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any
program to provide command-line editing and history.
This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any program to
provide command-line editing and history.
It is call-compatible with the FSF readline library, but it is a
fraction of the size (and offers fewer features). It does not use
standard I/O. It is distributed under a "C News-like" copyright, see
the file LICENSE for details.
It is call-compatible with the FSF readline library, but it is a fraction of
the size (and offers fewer features). It does not use standard I/O. It is
distributed under a "C News-like" copyright, see the file LICENSE for
details.
Configuration is made by supplying different options to the GNU
configure script. In the examples directory you can find a small and
slow shell for testing called testit.
Configuration is made by supplying different options to the GNU configure
script. In the examples/ directory you can find a couple of small & slow
shell implementations used for testing.
This library was previously also packaged exclusively for Debian. The
exact origin of the Debian version is unclear, see the Sid package at
http://packages.debian.org/sid/libeditline0 for details. There are
some differences between that version and upstream, some of those
patches will also be merged here.
Before finding out about the Debian version I was on the lookout for a
really small replacement for the GNU readline package. Not only was it large
and GPL:ed (instead of LGPL:ed), it also depended on libncurses, so the
resulting size was a bit too much for my embedded system. I eventually
stubmled upon the BSD libedit library, which was sufficient for a while,
even though it too depended upon libncurses. I searched my soul and went
back to where I, back in 1996, started out -- Minix. And there it was, a
really small readline replacement!
In 2000 Jim Studt packaged libeditline for Debian[1], the exact origin of
the Debian code base is unclear, see the Sid package[2] for details. There
were some notable differences between that version and the upstream Minix
sources, all of which have now been merged here.
An explanation of the version numbering may be in order. I didn't know
about the Debian version for quite some time, so I kept a different name for
the package and a different versioning scheme. Now, in June 2009, I decided
to line up alongside Debian, with the intent of merging the efforts. Sorry
for any confusion this might cause.
Enjoy,
Joachim Nilsson
<joachim@vmlinux.org>
Joachim Nilsson <joachim.nilsson@vmlinux.org>
[1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/05/msg00548.html
[2] - http://packages.debian.org/sid/libeditline0