Re: Python: Switch from distutils to pep517

Hello Charlie,

Thanks for clarification and I'm looking for pep517 to get updated soon.

What a commiter can do about this?
Each python port that I come cross with in bugzilla that uses distutils, I
check if pep517 is possible and then I try to convince maintainer to use
that build instead.
Some maintainers go for new build (sometimes adding pytest to it too)
others prefers to wait until it is *really* deprecated.

I don't know if a decision of a mass change will be made or not, but as
committer, I'm thinking opening PRs for ports where pep517 do work.
Maybe a master PR should exist to connect all indidual PRs.

With an updated pep517 wiki this will be easier to execute.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> escreveu (quinta, 9/01/2025 à(s) 05:41):

> Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > How is the status of switching from deprecated distutils to pep517 build?
> > I remember some time ago to see some changes but it seems to stalled now.
> >
> Not stalled. Not every Python package in the wild has flipped to PEP-517
> yet.
> > For people upgrading to pep517, are depends correct?
> >
> > BUILD_DEPENDS= \
> > ${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
> > ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
> >
> > Or ${PY_SETUPTOOLS} should be replaced with ?
> > ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR}
> >
> The latter. Originally I implemented ${PY_SETUPTOOLS} when
> devel/py-setuptools58 was still viable for the remaining
> USE_PYTHON=distutils cases, but both significant changes in later
> devel/py-pyproject-hooks breaking setuptools 58 (and rendering
> maintenance uneconomical) and continued maintenance of setup() direct
> execution obviated that plan. Until I update devel/py-setuptools itself,
> which will specify devel/py-wheel as both {BUILD,RUN}_DEPENDS, you will
> need to also specify the latter in each setuptools PEP-517 consumer.
>
> I will update the documentation (mostly the wiki?) accordingly.
>
> --
> Charlie Li
> ...nope, still don't have an exit line.
>


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