Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date
>
> And a third who periodically packages that at http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/

I'm really confused between libedit and libeditline. They both appear
to be in Debian and I think they both trace their lineage to the
original BSD library. Was one the NetBSD maintained one and the other
the "upstream"?

> I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has
> a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate
> dependence on the one with an unreasonable license (OpenSSL).

Personally I find there are plenty of technical reasons to run
screaming from OpenSSL anyways.

-- 
greg