Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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?
I’m not familiar with Python packaging. From what I understand,
distutils has much fewer features than setuptools; but in the few cases
that I tried replacing it did work out just fine.
> Still it would be nice to have a generic solution. Maybe we should
> patch setuptools itself to change its defaults?
This would probably be best, but I don’t understand setuptools enough to
propose a patch.
~~ Ricardo
