Re: [Bug-readline] rlwrap using readline-6.3 segfaults after pressing "r[PgUp][PgUp]" on Mageia Linux x86-64 6/Cauldron

[Shlomi Fish]

Hello Chet,

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:27:04 -0400
Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 8/31/15 10:43 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> > That put aside, these patches were not easy to learn about. I believe it
> > would be a better idea to mint a new release of GNU readline (say "6.3.1"
> > or "6.4") instead which will have all the necessary patches applied. 
> 
> Hi.  That's always a tricky problem.  

Why? Just mint a new release.

> The authoritative place for
> information about a particular piece of GNU software is supposed to be
> www.gnu.org/software/<package>.
> 
> If you go to www.gnu.org/software/readline, you find links that will
> resolve your questions: the distribution is there, all the patches are
> there, and there is a link that will always download the current, fully-
> patched version.
> 

Well, the first thing I notice there is that the latest release is
readline-6.3 . Furthermore, the fully patched version has no release version
numbers, which isn't good.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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