Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:08:49 -0800
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (inputs
>> - `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools)
> …
>> + `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools)
>
> setuptools is now part of each Python installation on Guix, even for
> python2 and pip does not require any special version of setuptools
> AFAIK. So this input can be removed at all.
Hi Hartmut, and thanks for your work on the new Python build
system. I'll try to get familiar with it this week and send a reworked
patch.
It makes a lot of sense that the build system should take care of the
setuptools dependency for us, it being the canonical tool to build
Python packages.
Maxim
