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From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] toplevel command history/editing?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:33:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320053354.GA19398@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87el53s57v.fsf@cs.uga.edu>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0500, cashin@cs.uga.edu wrote:
> Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > SooHyoung Oh <shoh@duonix.com> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Please check "ledit" and "ocaml2" in Caml humps pages.
> >
> > That's nice, but why isn't this ability built into `ocaml'?
> > I can't think of a reason why any user would not want this.
> 
> Just a guess: maybe a lot of developers are using the "run-caml"
> command inside of emacs, which provides history and other nice
> features. 

I think a major reason is licensing: the GNU readline library is licensed
under the GPL, whereas the O'Caml toplevel is licensed under the QPL, and
these two licenses are not compatible.  Check

    http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/LICENSE.html

for more info.

Since `ledit' is a standalone program, this sort of thing doesn't crop up.

cheers,
William

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-19  0:04 Graham Guttocks
2003-03-19  0:16 ` SooHyoung Oh
2003-03-19  0:22   ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-19 16:15     ` cashin
2003-03-20  5:33       ` William Lovas [this message]
2003-03-19  0:19 ` Sergey Goldgaber

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