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Hi, |
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I'd like to remove the DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS QA check. It used to be |
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helpful when we were dealing with some tricky cases, notably: |
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- distutils vs setuptools use |
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- entry points requiring RDEPEND on setuptools |
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However, both of these are no longer really relevant. Distutils is |
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being removed in favor of vendoring it in setuptools, PEP 517 requires |
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building distutils packages via setuptools, and entry points no longer |
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require any dependencies. |
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Right now the only remaining purpose of the check is checking |
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install_requires for explicit dependency on setuptools. However, this |
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is like any other dependency and the devs can declare it explicitly |
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instead. |
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Giving that a new major eclass redesign is coming as part of PEP517 |
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support and it's killing DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS entirely, |
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and the check is misfiring again, I don't feel like there's much point |
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in trying to fix it again. |
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So would anyone mind me removing it entirely? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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