Re: Why does libca.so depend on libreadline.so?

[Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 19:40, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 5/11/23 01:38, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov via Tech-talk wrote:

...
> The only oddity which puzzled me is integration of commandline editing into libCom -- that looks completely out of place.

Hardly the only historical oddity in a ~30 year old code base.

I created issue https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/issues/386 so that there's a bookmark that can be used for detailed discussions and that Pull Requests can be linked to.

Cheers,
~Ralph