Hi, everyone.
You've probably had the opportunity to hear that a lot has changed
in Python packaging since Portage's setup.py was written in 2014. There
were some minor changes to keep it working since but it's time to
reconsider.
Long story short, distutils is strongly deprecated, setuptools
de
On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or
> Meson. However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose
> the ability to install Portage as a regular Python package (e.g. inside
> a virtualenv).
What
On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 20:57 +, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or
> > Meson. However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose
> > the ability to install Portag
