comparison with https://github.com/jangko/nim-noise?

[timotheecour]

refs https://github.com/jangko/nim-noise
refs nim-lang/Nim#16451 (comment)

[de-odex]

I already have hints working, i believe; not sure on windows support as ive never tried it; this is a direct port, i think jangko's is more of a modified port, more akin to a remake or so

[timotheecour]

thanks; I'm asking because of nim-lang/Nim#16451 (comment); araq wants (rightfully so) to remove the linenoise.c, linenoise.h in nim repo to replace it with nim code, but I'm in favor of avoiding duplicate effort if existing libraries have a suitable replacement.

one option would be:

• copy sources (if license compatible and it's ok with everyone etc) from for example your repo (https://github.com/de-odex/linenoise-nim/blob/master/src/linenoise.nim) into nim's repo as a mostly readonly mirror
• and still allow users to easy get your upstream version (or nim-noise) depending on --path:prefix:path, say to get a more recent version than the one baked in nim

wdyt?

[de-odex]

the license is directly linenoise's license as i don't understand how licenses should work too well, too lawyerese for me to understand i think. i'm not done making this more idiomatic (please tell me if i should or not though). i think it should be okay once i fix up all weird oddities i made a year ago when i was much newer to nim

edit: oddities like me adding a field truebuf to the linenoisestate for some reason that i do not recall