pythondeps.toml is parsed using either Python's embedded tomllib parser new in Python 3.11, or the external tomli library for older versions. The latter however was absent in Ubuntu 20.04, so we include a copy of the wheel in python/wheels. (For Debian bullseye, it is included in the backports repository).
Now that Ubuntu 20.04 is not supported anymore, it can be dropped; and with it the "ensure" subcommand of mkvenv.py, which was only needed to bootstrap the venv with the TOML parser needed by "ensuregroup". Back when mkvenv.py was implemented, John and I had an idea of an "isolated mode" that does not use any system packages. With these patches this means that, as things stand, the isolated mode can only work with Python 3.11+; older versions would need special code in mkvenv.py to install tomli from PyPI if system_site_packages==False[1]. Since the isolated mode does not exist yet, this is left for the future comtemplation. Paolo [1] isolated mode probably would benefit from installing distlib instead of using the pip._vendor.distlib hack; therefore, adding tomli would not be a huge deal anyway. Paolo Bonzini (2): Revert "python: use vendored tomli" python: mkvenv: remove ensure command docs/devel/build-system.rst | 13 ++- configure | 4 - python/scripts/mkvenv.py | 105 --------------------- python/scripts/vendor.py | 3 - python/wheels/tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl | Bin 12757 -> 0 bytes 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 python/wheels/tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl -- 2.45.1
