[Distutils] PEP 517: Bootstrapping setuptools

Jim Fulton jim at jimfulton.info
Mon Aug 21 17:27:42 EDT 2017


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:17 PM, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course, to be frank, the principle failure with this plan is that
> third-party tools (buildout, os packagers) will not be compliant with PEP
> 517 even after it is adopted, and will then complain about having to update
> their build systems.
>

I don't understand this statement. If buildout needs to be compliant, it
will be (eventually).  I can imagine a future where everything is
distributed with wheels and buildout wouldn't need to build anything.

Jim


>
> 2017-08-21 16:05 GMT-05:00 xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com>:
>
>> Previously, the attempt to move setuptools off of vendored dependencies
>> failed because it was not done correctly: install_requires was set to the
>> vendored dependencies but not setup_requires, which would have been
>> required to correctly specify dependencies. However, setup_requires would
>> have introduced circular dependencies that are impossible to correctly
>> resolve, so that would have simply shifted an impossible problem onto pip.
>>
>> The principle issue then, is that setuptools requires setuptools to build
>> itself. And although, this problem was previously not worth solving because
>> of 'setup.py install', it is now not a difficult problem to solve if we
>> rethink slightly what should be included in the setuptools respository:
>> - Rather than re-generating egg_info on each setup.py invocation, we can
>> cache dist-info in the setuptools respository.
>> - We can implement a simple entry_points script that updates dist-info
>> based on the contents of setup.py, which is only runnable of course after
>> setuptools is installed
>> - We can implement the reference build backend for setuptools: simply
>> copy the files and dist-info into a new compliant zip archive
>>
>> Viola! Setuptools is no longer required to build setuptools, and the
>> installation process is fully compliant with Python PEPs.
>>
>
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