On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:40:02AM +0000, Peter Bortas @ Pike developers forum wrote:
I'm not a big consumer of readline, but wouldn't compatibility glue be needed?
actually, thinking about it some more, i think not.
there are two situations: either the last line is overwritten, (like in hilfe) which is clearly wrong, and applying one of the patches fixes that.
or the application using readline already contains a workaround which would normally be to to add an extra newline before the app allows readline to continue in which case the buxfix will be a noop since it only changes behaviour if there is no newline at the end od the last line.
so this means: applications affected by the bug will be fixed, and applications containing a workaround will not notice any difference. hence, compatibility glue is not needed.
greetings, martin.