Advertise for more testers on julia-dev?

[ivarne]

One step to get this closer to merging into the main Julia repository might to get more testers. I almost sent this mail to julia-dev, but I thought I might ask before sending.

The readline base REPL we currently use for Julia is the best I have ever used, but because of some issues that nobody has been able to solve, it seems like the current strategy is to replace it with a pure Julia version. There was some activity testing it a few weeks ago, but there are probably still issues so I thought it was a good idea to spread the recipe for how to use it to the wider community.

Currently you have to use the master versions of REPL.jl and the dependencies REPLCompletions.jl, Terminals.jl and Readline.jl
Pkg.add("REPL.jl")
Pkg.checkout("REPL")
Pkg.checkout("REPLCompletions")
Pkg.checkout("Terminals")
Pkg.checkout("Readline")

Now you can start the new REPL with
julia ~/.julia/REPL/scripts/repl.jl
To update when Keno and others pushes fixes, you can use Pkg.update()
Issues can be reported on https://github.com/loladiro/REPL.jl/issues

Is this okay to send?

[Keno]

Yeah, this is probably a good idea. Go ahead!