bug#46132: [bug] build of /gnu/store/~-python2-setuptools-52.0.0.drv failed

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 02:09, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 08:47, "K I" <gitlabcanada@runbox.com> wrote:
>
>>   File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1367
>>     raise SyntaxError(e) from e
>>                             ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> command "python" "-c" "import setuptools, 
>> tokenize;__file__='setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', 
>> open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\\r\\n', 
>> '\\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" "build" failed with 
>> status 1
>
> It is expected because Setuptools removed the compatibility with Python 2,
> see the ChangeLog:
>
> v47.0.0
>
> 28 May 2020
> Breaking Changes
>
>     #2094: Setuptools now actively crashes under Python 2. Python 3.5 or 
> later is required. Users of Python 2 should use setuptools<45.
>
>
> <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html>
> <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2094>
>
>
> The question is: do we remove ’python2-setuptools’ since it is defined
> by the usual ’package-with-python2’?
>
> (define-public python2-setuptools
>   (package-with-python2 python-setuptools))
>
> Or do we define python2-setuptools with the version v46.4.0?  Which,
> IMHO does not make sense since Python 2 is end of life since one year.

Currently, python-setuptools is at version 52.0 and python2-setuptools
at version 41.0.1.  Both build fine.  The comment says:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Newer versions of setuptools no longer support Python 2.
(define-public python2-setuptools
  (package
    (name "python2-setuptools")
    (version "41.0.1")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

therefore, this part of the bug is done.  Let check the other part.


Cheers,
simon