Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> I stumbled upon a similar problem when building other Python packages.
> For ‘python-patsy’, for example, I found that an egg archive is produced
> no matter what I put in ‘setup.cfg’. As far as I can tell, “zip_ok”
> defaults to “0” in recent versions of setuptools, so I don’t think the
> fix you used on ‘python-pillow’ would have much effect in general.
OK.
> I could only coerce the build system to install plain files by adding a
> build phase like this:
>
> (add-after 'unpack 'prevent-generation-of-egg-archive
> (lambda _
> (substitute* "setup.py"
> (("from setuptools import setup")
> "from distutils.core import setup"))
> #t))
>
> It turns out that when ‘setuptools.setup’ is used egg archives are
> built, when ‘distutils.core.setup’ is used, however, this does not
> happen.
But are distutils.core and setuptools the same thing? Replacing one by
the other sounds a bit scary, no?
Still it would be nice to have a generic solution. Maybe we should
patch setuptools itself to change its defaults?
Ludo’.
