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  r74970 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-09-20 16:18:15 +0200 (Sun, 20 Sep 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue 6877: this patch makes it possible to link the readline extension
  to the libedit emulation of the readline API on OSX 10.5 or later.

  This also adds a minimal testsuite for readline to check that the
  history manipuation functions have the same interface with both
  C libraries.
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 Extension Modules
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+- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
+  libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
 
 - Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.