On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 21:34, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > > When invoking setup.py directly, the default behavior for 'install' is > to run the bdist_egg installation hook, which is ... actually deprecated > by setuptools. It doesn't seem to work quite right anymore. > > By contrast, 'pip install' will invoke the bdist_wheel hook > instead. This leads to differences in behavior for the two approaches. I > advocate using pip in the documentation in this directory, but the > 'setup.py' which has been used for quite a long time in the Python world > may deceptively appear to work at first glance. > > Add an error message that will save a bit of time and frustration > that points the user towards using the supported installation > invocation.
While we're on the topic of python installation, is there any way to suppress or otherwise deal with the warning Meson prints out? WARNING: Broken python installation detected. Python files installed by Meson might not be found by python interpreter. (I vaguely recall tracking down a meson bug, and this seems to be some issue the meson developers have with the way Ubuntu/Debian have done their python packaging. But I forget the details.) thanks -- PMM
