Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>>> Many of us would like to see libedit ported to Windows too ;-)
>> Yeah, it's on my (insanely long) TODO to look at sometime :-)
>>
>> //Magnus
>
> I've thought about working on a libedit port myself, but I don't see how
> that would help PostgreSQL unless the PostgreSQL community would be
> willing to include the libedit code into our source tree
> (pgsql/src/port/? ).
>
> Otherwise it would just be downloadable from some obscure place that
> most people won't find or trust.
Others have already pointed out the gain for users who download binary
distributions. Heck, worst case, we can just stick a port on pgFoundry.
So - let me know if you actively start looking at this, and if so let's
cooperate.
//Magnus