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conda-forge / epics-base-feedstock

A conda-smithy repository for epics-base.
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remove readline dependency #12

Open tacaswell opened 4 years ago

tacaswell commented 4 years ago

At one point we had this recipe building without readline. I think we should remove it again as it has historically been a problematic dependency due to collisions with the system readline (things may be better now (as conda / conda-forge is packaging almost everything).

beenje commented 4 years ago

I have seen problem when some developers built the recipe locally and their system readline was used (at build time). This created issue when using the package on a separate machine of course due to the different version. I don't see what can be the issue if the package is properly built and installed with the same readline version from conda (as done on conda-forge). Could you point me to an example?

I understand that for some use case you don't care about readline support. But if you want to run a softIOC on Linux or MacOS with this package, you do.