[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 6:00, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:
>
>> On Feb 15, 2005, at 5:48, Michael Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know.  If I did know, I'd probably have done it.  It would
>>> help if Apple shipped Python with readline support enabled, for
>>> starters.
>>
>> I think it's a licensing issue, Apple is probably trying to save
>> people (themselves?) from linking against GPL stuff without realizing
>> the implications.
>
> Probably yes.  But they ship bash with readline enabled... oh well,
> I'm not masochistic enough to flog that particular horse.

It would be pretty hard to unintentionally violate the GPL by accident 
with a readline-enabled bash executable considering that you can't link 
to an MH_EXECUTABLE -- and even if you could, it's stripped so the 
symbols aren't there anymore anyway.

-bob