Hi,
> Can you be more specific why it is removed? I don't understand the harm
> it does or doesn't do when it's included.
> Would this not be bad for packages which require setuptools?
Python 3.4 integrated setuptools into the main distribution. It doesn't require
an external python-setuptools. I don't understand why Guix even still has a
"python-setuptools" package. (python2-setuptools is OK - but the other one:
why?)
New packages are usually Python 3 compatible. Also, the python-build-system
defaults to Python 3.
That's why I assume that the package S-Expression printed is for Python 3 (and
so do many other Guix parts). There, it doesn't make sense to include
setuptools anymore.
Also, it's better if the package expression doesn't include python-setuptools
by default because a lazy packager (i.e. me) will just copy & paste it and call
it a day. Then the new package depends on python-setuptools even though it
doesn't need it at all.
I'm not sure what to do about the Python 2 package expression. I think this
function only can return one expression.
If possible, I'd like it to automatically print the Python 2 package
expression, for example
(define-public python2-lockfile
(let ((base (package-with-python2 (strip-python2-variant python-lockfile))))
(package
(inherit base)
(native-inputs `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
,@(package-native-inputs base))))))
, as well.
