Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)

[James Butler]

2009/2/1 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ?
>
> Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed one, or
> someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and ports on all the
> appropriate architectures.

This might be off topic, but NetBSD has (limited) readline
compatibility in their libedit (which FreeBSD has in ports I think) -
this also gives them tab-completion in /bin/sh :-)

-James Butler