On 3/9/24 9:32 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > Please consider the "legacy" build mode to be strongly deprecated, both > in distutils-r1 and upstream (to the point that sole presence of > packages installed that way triggers deprecation warnings elsewhere, > sigh). Therefore, if you haven't done that already, please look into > converting your packages to use PEP517 builds (DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517, > installing .dist-info rather than .egg*). We'd like to eventually > remove the legacy code paths from the eclass, as they are not well- > tested at this point, and they certainly are lacking, compared to > the newer code paths.
Reminder as well to be *extremely* careful when looking at non-library packages, since projects using setup.py as a "pythonic Makefile" run a very high risk of being broken under PEP 517 (and this is unavoidable, since the python wheel standard doesn't support application packaging, only *.py libraries and executables). As noted in the migration guide link, you MUST check the list of installed files before and after switching and make sure the switch doesn't break anything. > This also applies to overlay maintainers, since overlays will be > affected once we remove old code paths. > > The migration guide is here: > > https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/migration.html#migrating-to-pep-517-builds > > While at it, please also look at replacing `distutils_enable_tests > setup.py` with one of the other test runners, as running `setup.py test` > has been deprecated upstream as well. Or running `setup.py` at all, but > the latter is less likely to suddenly stop working. > -- Eli Schwartz
OpenPGP_0x84818A6819AF4A9B.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key
OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
