Setup readline by default? (was Re: Interactive problems with Python 1.6)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> >readline readline.c -lreadline -ltermcap
> 
> Is there a reason that readline is not on by default?  Most people would
> want it if it's on the system.  Can't the ./configure figure it out whenever
> it's available on a host? 

configure cannot rewrite the Setup files.

imo, the right way to do this is to build a minimal interpreter first,
and use a distutils script to build the rest.  maybe in 2.1?

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