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> Tk is not a hard dependency at the moment, unless you want an event loop. AE
> will not be a hard dependency (with my proposed patch), either.
So far as I can tell, ReadLine simply wants to know when a filehandle is
readable.
So rather than adding yet another hard-coded piece of loop support (and one
that as noted in my other message is unusable in some environments), perhaps
we could simply add a callback interface - i.e.
my $ae_cb = sub {
my $cv = AE::cv;
AE::io($_[0]->in, 0, sub { $cv->send });
$cv->recv;
};
Term::ReadLine->new(..., read_callback => $ae_cb);
Then we can document the AnyEvent way as an example, users of other event
loops can do the same, and everybody gets what they want without introducing
explicit core support for a module that's ... controvertial, at best.
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