Readline package appears broken (Linux)

[jakirkham]

It appears the copy of readline that now fills the channels, possibly the same one provided here, is broken. To see what I mean, try downloading any of the docker images and install ipython with conda. The colors are missing, tab completion fails, using up/down arrows to traverse history fails. This is normally due to a broken readline or a copy of python that failed to link against readline. This really hurts the usability of things like the terminal based iPython.

[msarahan]

Just for scope, what platform(s) have you found this on? I think it is
working on Windows at least, but will investigate Linux and Mac.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015, 07:55 jakirkham notifications@github.com wrote:

It appears the copy of gnureadline that now fills the channels, possibly
the same one provided here, is broken. To see what I mean, try downloading
any of the docker images and install ipython with conda. The colors are
missing, tab completion fails, using up/down arrows to traverse history
fails. This is normally due to a broken gnureadline or a copy of python
that failed to link against gnureadline. This really hurts the usability
of things like the terminal based iPython.

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[jakirkham]

Certainly, Linux. It happened on Python 2.7 and 3.4. May be happening on other Python's, as well.

I tried creating a simple environment on Mac with ipython, but it appears this issue didn't appear. In short, just Linux.

[jakirkham]

I think this may even only be an issue with the docker images. Not sure why though. Does this link to any other system libraries?

[jakirkham]

Closing in favor of anaconda/docker-images#19