Re: [libcvd-members] GUI/GVars readline code

[Edward Rosten]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Georg Klein wrote:

> Would anyone be terribly upset if I had a go at changing the GUI libreadline 
> call? IMO the current model is bizarre, and the whole thing could be replaced 
> by a singleton which handles interactive console input, using libreadline if 
> it's available and std::getline if it's not.
>
> This is partially motivated by the fact that libreadline is GPL, so having it 
> optional is a good thing if gvars is supposed to be LGPL!

Go ahead. By the way, GVars currently compiles two versions, one with 
readline and one without. gvars3_headless.so has _no_ interactive 
components at all.

Also, does it make sense to anyone else to allow multiple toolkits. 
Shouldn't there just bt a GUI_Widgets (which is essentially GUI_Fltk, 
GUI_Fltk2 or GUI_Motif), where the specific toolkit is selected at library 
build time?

I think this may be my fault, by the way...

-Ed