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Re: undead zwgcs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Sep 22 13:35:07 1998
To: griffon@snurgle.org
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 22 Sep 1998 13:30:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: Chris Chiappa's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:28:38 -0400"
Chris Chiappa <griffon@snurgle.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 03:30:16AM -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> > I'd be happy to see ss go away, in favor of something like tcl. (With
> > line editing grafted on, of course. But not readline, because of the
> > GPL issues.)
>
> KTH Kerberos comes with libeditline, supposedly a drop-in replacement for
> libreadline which is claimed to be much lighterweight as well.
Okay, yes, you could use editline and (as Assar pointed out to me) the
sl library. But does sl do anything about quoting, loop and
conditional structures, providing user variables, defining functions,
etc? (I haven't looked.) That's my main point, not the line editing.
The ss code fails completely in those areas.
Such a package might replace the zwgc command language, as well as the
zctl interface.
