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Re: libguile and readline


Mikael Djurfeldt writes:
 > Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Guile's Readline support will become a Guile module which, when
 > > loaded, will dynamically link the Readline library into Guile.  Thus,
 > > a program which wants to use readline must explicitly reference the
 > > readline module in its code.
...
 > 
 > We must find a solution which is practical.  It would be sad if
 > license problems were allowed to reduce the usefulness of the library.

How does Python solve the problem? There are readline-linked python
copies floating around.
--
Klaus Schilling