Re: localize _PYSETUPINSTALLARGS in lang/python/extension.mk and/or _PYSETUPTOOLSINSTALLARGS in egg.mk

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:14:41 +0900, <rodent%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> Additionally, this seems wrong:
>
> .if ${_PYTHON_VERSION} == "31" || ${_PYTHON_VERSION} == "32" || ${_PYTHON_VERSION} == 
> "33"
> DEPENDS+=               
> ${PYPKGPREFIX}-distribute-[0-9]*:../../devel/py-distribute
> .else
> DEPENDS+=               
> ${PYPKGPREFIX}-setuptools>=0.6c9:../../devel/py-setuptools
> .endif
>
> That's saying that an egg-aware package using python27, for example, must use
> py-setuptools. This is not the case for the latest version of py-nltk, which
> is based on py-distribute, but is also egg-aware. NLTK 3.0.x supports python
> 2.6, 2.7, and python 3.y, which I suppose means that py-distribute can also
> work for python27 and python26 (this is also evidenced by not seeing any
> restrictions to PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED in py-distribute).
>
> Is there some reason we're restricting egg-aware python package to the
> py-setuptools method of packaging?

From commit log of lang/python/egg.mk:
revision 1.14
date: 2012/07/25 19:07:49;  author: drochner;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
use py-distribute for Python3 rather than py-setuptools
(The former might be used for Python2 as well, but it needs more
testing.)

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