I'd say we should just drop the check then. If something breaks, then that something needs to be fixed to not use distutils anyway, and not doing the check will expose those items in need of fixing.
Alex On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 19:18, Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2022, at 14:55, Alexander Kanavin via lists.openembedded.org > <[email protected]> wrote: > > # Check the python install is complete. Examples that are often removed > > in > > - # minimal installations: glib-2.0-natives requries # xml.parsers.expat > > and icu > > - # requires distutils.sysconfig. > > + # minimal installations: glib-2.0-natives requries # xml.parsers.expat > > try: > > import xml.parsers.expat > > - import distutils.sysconfig > > + import sysconfig > > Well, we check for distutils because it’s often packaged separately, for > example in Debian/Ubuntu it is part of python3-distutils and is not installed > if you just ‘apt install python3’. > > sysconfig is not split out, it’s part of the core library. > > If we don’t actually need a *host* distutils anymore (and this is easily > tested) then we can remove this check entirely. If we do, then this test > needs to remain and the code that uses *host* distutils should be fixed. > > Ross
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