Re: [ng-spice] readline feature


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From "Prof. Dr. Naundorf" <naundorf@fbf.fh-frankfurt.de>
Date Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:52:47 +0200
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Thanks for reply.
   ... so I will wait.

Uwe




Am Mit, 28 Jun 2000 schrieben Sie:
>Prof. Dr. Naundorf wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> has anybody an idea, how to implement the readline feature into ngspice?
>> It is very annoying to type CTRL u and then to retype the whole line,  if 
>there
>> is an  error in the input line of the interactive interpreter.
>
>I have already figured out to do this but until the licensing issue
>is sorted out it is not legal to distribute it. The problem that GNU's
>libreadline is licensed under the GPL which is incompatible with 
>the Spice license. We are currently working with UCB to get the Spice
>license changed so that it is compatible with the GPL. As soon as that
>happens I will grab the latest CVS version and reintegrate libreadline
>support.
>
>Cheers,
>Erik
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>     Erik de Castro Lopo     erikd@zip.com.au
>+-------------------------------------------------+
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