svn commit: r360019 - head/lang/ruby19

[Steve Wills]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:34:14PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 01.07.2014 18:31, Steve Wills wrote:
> >   - Force use of libreadline from ports rather than base, in order to avoid
> >     unexpectedly getting readline from ports if it's already installed.
> >   - Add patch to work with newer libreadline.
> >   - Provide an option to use libedit from ports, avoiding the libedit in base.
> >   - Note: libreadline is not BSD licensed and while libedit would be preferable,
> >     it seems to have issues with UTF8 still, see ruby bug 9204. Once that's
> >     resolved, we can make libedit the default. Similar changes were done to Ruby
> >     2.0 and 2.1 in r355890. Also convert to USES=tar:bzip2 while here and cleanup
> >     a plist issue.
> 
> It works perfectly with readline in the base before. With this change it
> is broken, suggesting either to have UTF8 and other compatibility bugs
> of libedit or install unneeded readline from ports.

readline from ports will be required very soon as readline is being made
private in base, I believe in preparation for it being removed from base
eventually.

> P.S. Never ever consider libedit as readline replacement, it just looks
> like.

How do you mean?

Steve
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