Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline

Ian Lance Taylor
2005-07-18T17:26:52Z

Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> writes:

> >> Actually, I wonder if libiberty would be a better place for the minimal
> >> termcap stuff.
> >
> >I don't see why, unless we seriously think that some program other
> >than gdb is going to want to use it. If I understand the earlier
> >messages, the only point to the minimal termcap stuff is to use it
> >with readline on MinGW. That seems fairly special purpose to me, and
> >not the sort of thing we usually put it into libiberty.
>
> It just seemed to me that there was at least a chance that some other
> GNU project might eventually want to use readline with mingw.

To me that is an argument for putting it into readline itself.
Reductively, anybody who uses readline does use readline, but does not
necessarily use libiberty.

But I don't feel all that strongly about this. I'm just doubtful that
anybody other than gdb will ever use it out of libiberty.

Ian