Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 19:40:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cdecl 2.5 -- testing requested
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On 29 May 1998, Esa A E Peuha wrote:

> What's wrong with the Readline port that comes with the ported Bash
> sources?  Arrow keys certainly work with it.

1) Many people report difficulties in building it out of the box.  
2) It doesn't support all the PC editing keys (Home, End, Insert,
   Delete, to name a few; even Ctrl-Right doesn't work).
3) It should be in a separate zip.  People shouldn't need to download
   the entire Bash source distribution just to get Readline.

> Anyway, how should a ported library (such as Readline) be distributed?
> I mean things like what directory should the files be put in, should there
> be pre-compiled object files (possibly as a libXXX.a file) etc.

Like any other library ready for DJGPP.  Examples: grx22 and gdbm.
Yes, IMHO there should be a precompiled libreadline.a in the binary
zip.