Re: git: b9a3602bb3da - main - devel/py-pyproject_hooks: Update to 1.1.0

Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
> IMHO, we do nót need to do anything right now as py-setuptools58 is not 
> used by anything.
> It means we do not need to revert py-pyproject_hooks.
> 
> Furthermore, I don't think current PY_SETUPTOOLS and 
> devel/py-setuptools58 are needed in our ports tree.
> Since we could build almost every python port with pep517 (with minor 
> fixes for the case in its name), we should always use 
> devel/py-setuptools with correct version requirement rather than 
> PY_SETUPTOOLS.
> In my case, there are 1,310 ports with USE_PYTHON=pep517 and only 3 
> ports with USE_PYTHON=distutils which are intentional for simplicity.
> 
> We should encourage people to convert their ports to pep517 build.
> And we should preserve PY_SETUPTOOLS for conditional dependency on 
> py-setuptools for Python 3.12+.
> 
setuptools needs to build itself under PEP-517, which I will handle as 
part of the next update when we are ready. We cannot build it the 
current way as we have it in the tree (using distutils as a hack) when 
we finally land Python 3.12 as distutils no longer exists there. 
pyproject-hooks needs to work in order to build setuptools itself under 
PEP-517.

As long as there are any ports with USE_PYTHON=distutils, setuptools58 
has to exist as the distutils method is explicitly not supported past 
this version, even if it works by accident.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.