libevent missing Python dependency

[jakirkham]

Appears the libevent recipe is not open sourced AFAICT or at least it is not in this repo. In any event, I'm going to put this issue here as I can't think of a more appropriate place to put it ATM. Should add libevent does appear in the anaconda channel. So this seems reasonable.

After recently working on a libevent recipe in PR ( conda-forge/staged-recipes#1491 ), it has become clear to me that libevent depends on Python. This is because it installs a script to the bin directory called event_rpcgen.py. Not only does it depend on Python, but that script appears to hard-code Python 2. Thus libevent should depend on Python 2.x for run and build.

[jakirkham]

Any thoughts on this?

[jakirkham]

Friendly nudge. Would love to understand what plans there are to fix this issue.

[ilanschnell]

I would not consider libevent a Python package, just because it contains a Python script, because it does not install a Python library (into site-packages) which you can import. The plan is to remove the script event_rpcgen.py (in order to avoid confusion) and not add Python as a dependency.

[jakirkham]

That sounds completely reasonable. Will follow suit then. Thanks.