Re: pari-2.15.2 released / readline

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 06:56:21PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 05:32:37PM +0100, Jürgen Borries wrote:
> > I stil use the old version Pari/Gp 2.13.4 in windows 10 (64 bit) because it
> > is the last published precompiled version without readline.
> 
> Hi Jürgen,
> 
> We still provide binaries without readline, see
> 
> https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/windows/
> 
> Furthermore you should be able to disable readline with
> default(readline,0)
> or
> readline = 0
> in your file gprc.txt.
> 
> Which version of Windows do you use ?

I need to give a bit of background:

The default Windows terminal is not ANSI-compliant.
PARI/GP for Windows include code to convert ANSI sequences to Windows API call.
This is everything but pleasant. For reason unclear to me readline do not work well
with it 

Windows >= 10 terminal has an option to switch to ANSI mode.
This is needed for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (which we recommend to use, see
https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/PDF/PARIwithWindows.pdf)

But due to the conversion code, the native PARI windows binaries probably do not work
well when such option is enabled (though I did not test).

I could probably build PARI binaries for Windows without the conversion code but they
would only work with Windows 10 with ANSI mode.

In any case if you have Windows >= 10, my advice is to use the Windows
Subsystem for Linux and set thet the terminal to ANSI, this will gives you the
best experience.

Cheers,
Bill.