[Distutils] PEP 517: Bootstrapping setuptools

[Matt Joyce]

venvs within venvs... terrifying concept.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at jimfulton.info> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Isn't this a special case of needing . on sys.path when building a
>> package? Then the same version of setuptools that is being packaged builds
>> itself.
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> No. The issue for us it wasn't setuptools itself, but it's dependencies
> and those dependencies conflicted with dependencies of of packages we were
> installing *and* those packages importing these dependences (indirectly) in
> their setup scripts.  Setup scripts that import the thing they're about to
> install, generally to get the version :(, is something I'd love to see go
> away.
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> Jim
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