Re: [PATCH 00/14] Change python-build-system (fixes bug 20765)

[Leo Famulari]

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?