On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 19:23 +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > > TL;DR: how to deal with setuptools (and newer distutils vendored by > > setuptools) replacing .egg-info files with directories? > > > I should probably emphasize here that the .egg-info path contains > > the package version, so this is a problem only if the same upstream > > version is being reinstalled. > > > > You can easily reproduce the problem by playing with: > > > > SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib > > SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=local # vendored > > > 2. We could control the distutils version in ebuilds directly, > > i.e. force "stdlib" for the current versions and have developers > > switch > > to "local" on version bumps. Combined with 1., this will probably > > increase the coverage a bit but dead packages will remain in the > > way. > > It also relies on all devs understanding the problem. > > How about switching it with a new Python version? > (since that is also in the path...) >
I'm afraid upstream is likely to drop support for stdlib distutils before we manage to deprecate all the old versions... or even before 3.11 comes out. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
