On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > this is a patch-series fixing bug 20765. > > Bug 20765 is about problems caused by python packages being installed as > "zipped eggs" (basically these are zip-files).
Thanks for taking this on! I will read it more thoroughly tomorrow. I will test a few packages and, if they work, I plan to create a python-build-system job on Hydra and try building it the entire package tree (assuming that Hydra has the capacity). > This series implements what I proposed in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg02021.html>. > > A) For python2 include python2-setuptools as a native-input by default. Do all python-2 packages require setuptools, or just most of them? > B) Install Python packages using --single-version-externally-managed Okay. > C) Strip python-setuptools and python2-setuptools from all native-inputs > defined in packages. Hydra will test this :) > * update Python to 2.7.12 and 3.4.5. Python 2.7.12 and 3.5.2 are on core-updates. Should I cherry-pick those changes will testing these patches? Or should they work with the Python packages that we have on master?
