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[Caml-list] Readline support in the toplevel loop

Vincent Foley
- Daniel de Rauglaudre
  - Vincent Foley
  - Oleg
    - Daniel de Rauglaudre
- Xavier Leroy
  - Daniel de Rauglaudre
    - sebastien FURIC
    - Sven Luther
      - Daniel de Rauglaudre
        
        Sven Luther
      - Oleg

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From:	Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Readline support in the toplevel loop

Hi,

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:41:07AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> I considered it, but there are several issues.  One of them is that
> readline is GPL, thus linking it with the Caml toplevel could cause
> license incompatibility issues.

You may consider Ledit, because it can be used as a library: the Ledit
mli interface provides a function named input_char that you can use
instead of Pervasives.input_char. If you are interested and consider
it as a serious enough work, you can put it in the OCaml distribution.

-- 
Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/
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