Re: ap24-py310-python-3.5.0nb3 PLIST issue

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 03:29:22PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> I still consider this a serious pkgsrc bug - the build order of pkgs
>> should not matter (even if this may by plain luck hide this issue in
>> full bulk builds).
>
> It's more a setuptools bug really. The only way to fix it is to make
> more things than necessary depend on setuptools. But given that
> distutils is essentially dead, that train has passed.

That's not particularly constructive.  I agree with what I think you
intend, that it's not really a pkgsrc bug, but rather pkgsrc's failure
to work around upstream bugs.

But, regardless, it is wrong in pkgsrc if building a package obtains a
different result depending on what was installed.

Are you really saying that you think it is completely intractable to
patch this package so that it will build the same regardless of
setuptools installed or not?

And that it would be impossible to just depend on setuptools and set the
PLIST that way?