Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:
> | The MAC server on which this was compiled did not have an X-windows
> | environment so it was not possible to compile and test Axiom Graphics
> | and the Hyperdoc browser. Also native MAC OSX10 apparently does not
> | have support for the pts virtual terminal interface so it is not
> | possible yet to compile clef (the replacement for readline).
> I never quite understood why readline needs to be replaced.  Do you know?
readline is licensed under GPL (not LGPL). When Axiom was a commercial 
product, it could not use readline. Now it cannot use readline, too, 
because it is BSD-licensed (arrgh).

Andrey