Ticket #298 (closed issue: duplicate)
Fix readline support on glue's ActivePython instalation
| Reported by: | spascoe | Owned by: | spascoe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | desirable | Milestone: | PreBeta |
| Component: | ndg2 | Version: | |
| Keywords: | strategy | Cc: | pjkersha domlowe |
Description (last modified by spascoe) (diff)
using glue's ActivePython? as an interactive shell does not allow arrow key navigation of your command or access to a command history. This must be connected to the readline library ActivePython? is using (or not using).
This is a major irritation. A blog entry here says it isn't part of ActivePython? and a mailing list post here explains that it's a licencing issue (ActivePython? isn't GPL). The latter also suggests just dropping readline.so from another Python build into your PYTHONPATH.
Make a new Python 2.4 installation on glue to replace ActivePython?. This installation will contain all NDG dependency packages.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by spascoe
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Description modified (diff)
- Milestone set to PreBeta
At some point this is going to be enough of an issue for me to track down all dependencies and install a vanilla python 2.4.x. I have compiled the python tarball many times before so I'm the obvious candidate.
Initial timeline: PreBeta?.
ActivePython? was originally picked simply because it was easy to install. There's no reason to keep it.
If/when we do change it will need careful management to make sure all the 3rd party dependencies are included in site-packages.