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