ocaml and readline

i've installed ocaml via rpm (i generally compile everything) and was suprised
that it does not seem to use readline... can anyone confirm that i should
pick up readline if i compile myself??

cheers.

-a
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In article <cetebq$8ej$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> i've installed ocaml via rpm (i generally compile everything) and was suprised
> that it does not seem to use readline... can anyone confirm that i should
> pick up readline if i compile myself??

O'Caml's license precludes them linking it with readline. An easier
solution than hacking it to work yourself is to seek out a tool called
`ledit' -- it allows you to run any command-line-oriented program with
readline-like history and editing. And it's written in O'Caml, to boot!

cheers,
William

"Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:
> i've installed ocaml via rpm (i generally compile everything) and
> was suprised that it does not seem to use readline... can anyone
> confirm that i should pick up readline if i compile myself??

No, the readline license is incompatible with the OCaml license.

You can run ocaml under any of the numerous readline-like wrappers
(like ledit, which is written in OCaml, or cle, rlwrap, etc.), or
you can use ocaml-mode under Emacs.

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Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, William Lovas wrote:

> In article <cetebq$8ej$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>> i've installed ocaml via rpm (i generally compile everything) and was suprised
>> that it does not seem to use readline... can anyone confirm that i should
>> pick up readline if i compile myself??
>
> O'Caml's license precludes them linking it with readline. An easier
> solution than hacking it to work yourself is to seek out a tool called
> `ledit' -- it allows you to run any command-line-oriented program with
> readline-like history and editing. And it's written in O'Caml, to boot!
>
> cheers,
> William

thank william - i just got this for some reason, i think our mail server is
acting up.

regards.

-a
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| and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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