On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:13:47PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
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> --- Comment #2 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2007-10-18 17:13:46 ---
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Felipe Pena wrote:
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> > I did a patch for provider edition of pattern such as mysqlclient. Using the
> > GNU Readline library.
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> The problem with that is that it will only work when that library is
> available. PCRE runs on many different operating systems, and I have
> been careful to use only functions from the standard C library so that
> the only requirement is a standard C compiler and library.
If the user is talking about integrating readline with pcre to make a
final application, there is another problem. The resulting executable is
GPL'd. Watch out!
> I suppose it could be made conditional. I will look at this when I next
> work on PCRE (not for a few weeks).
That brings up a good point. If it's conditional, is it only GPL'd if
the resulting binary had the readline stuff enabled?
Bob Rossi
