Re: readline problems

Magnus Lie Hetland <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:10:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>:
[snip]
> If you want to write the autoconf deterction code for this, be my
> guest.

I don't really know autoconf/readline well enough for this, I think.

> GNU readline makes it impossible to detect at compile-time
> which version you have, otherwise I would have used #ifdef in the
> source.

I see.

Just out of curiosity: What is lost in using the old API?
Won't it work with more recent readline versions? Is there some
functionality/performance loss?

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Magnus Lie Hetland
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