Re: New python build system merged

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:02:52PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 30.11.2016 um 09:20 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> > I think it depends on how much work fixing them is. If it were just five 
> > minutes then I'd say leave it in master and fix the packages that failed.
> >
> > Otherwise revert.
> 
> I strongly against reverting this! We already have a backlog of several
> python packages which are using "setuptools" as input. If reverting the
> new python build system, we need to clean them all up later.
> 
> We need to go forward instead of reverting. Fixing up the build issues
> should be easy since the changes are not fundamental.

Fair points, but the master branch is not where we put unfinished things
to be fixed.

This is the currently running evaluation (post-merge) compared with
before the merge:

https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?compare=109380&full=1#tabs-now-fail

Already there are several hundred new failures... I'm not sure what the
"root" failures are so far.