Agreed.
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On Apr 27, 2005, at 7:10 AM,
rails-request-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org wrote:
> It''s not so much about patching rails as not breaking on apple
> systems'' default install. As was said earlier in the thread,
readline
> is only needed for rails because it adds a peripheral user interface
> enhancement. Since the company that perhaps ships more preinstalled
> copies of ruby than any other has chosen not to include readline, it
> probably makes sense for rails to degrade gracefully (use stdin/stdout
> for i/o).
>
> Tobias: If you just install readline without recompiling ruby, does it
> magically work with the installed ruby or does ruby still need to be
> rebuilt?
>
> The python community''s fix for this is that someone compiled
> readline.dylib for panther and by dropping it into the right
> directory, python''s extension recognizes it and readline
''wakes up''.
> Is that sort of thing feasible here?
>
> I don''t think it''s in rails'' best interest that
it can''t run on the
> stock install of OS X (perhaps the most popular os among web
> developers) for the sake of a library as non-central to rails as this
> one.
>
> Brian
>