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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <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?
| 
| clef knows more than readline. given an input file it can do smart
| command line completion of things like domain names.

In what sense that "more knowledge" is unattainable with readline.
I dislike all those duplicated things in Axiom.  They are nothing but
source of confusion.

-- Gaby