[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2021-02-03 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If y

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-09-04 Thread Jason R. Coombs
Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I've done more work breaking down the findings: pygoogle (7): All forks of a project of the same name. Ignorable since the name matches the project name. cancelbot (3): All forks of a project of the same name. Ignorable since the name matches the project nam

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-09-02 Thread Jason R. Coombs
Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Doing a quick search on Github, it seems there are [537 projects](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=extra_path+filename%3Asetup.py&type=Code&ref=searchresults) indicating `extra_path` in their setup.py. Many (most?) of those are using the feature to

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-09-01 Thread Jason R. Coombs
Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Thanks, Nick. I've also observed that the package that was mentioned in the comments was "Numeric Python" and I confirmed that numpy is not currently using this option, so that's a positive indication that it's unneeded. I've also reached out to New Relic and

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-09-01 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 94710cbcac47 by Jason R. Coombs in branch 'default': Issue #27919: Deprecate extra_path option in distutils. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/94710cbcac47 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-09-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: I think there are two time frames to look at here: 1. How do we make it easier for folks to work with existing packages like the newrelic one? For that, it may make sense for at least setuptools to override extra_path when using installation targets other then

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-08-31 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger : -- nosy: +brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://m

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-08-31 Thread Jason R. Coombs
Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Nick, what's your instinct regarding this issue? -- nosy: +ncoghlan ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue27919] Deprecate and remove extra_path distribution kwarg

2016-08-31 Thread Jason R. Coombs
New submission from Jason R. Coombs: extra_path is implicated in [this failure](https://github.com/jaraco/rwt/issues/7) and in general in any attempt to install to a path in PYTHONPATH that's not in site-packages. For example: $ python -m pip install -t foo newrelic Collecting newrelic Install