systematic issue with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST

[Nikolai Lifanov]

On 2013-11-22 16:46, Nicola Vitale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> [2013/11/22 William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>]
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Nicola Vitale <nivit at freebsd.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> If so, in my opinion the cause may be this change to bsd.python.mk:
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=322046
>> 
>> In my opinion its not really a cause, how else would you do that? We
>> are dealing with packages, I don't see another way to install the
>> packages if not manually poking with easy-install.pth.
> 
> Yes, of course. Or we can use easy_install command again...
> 
>> Sure, but the only way around that I see is manually creating the
>> easy-install.pth, or figure out a way to tel setuptools to,
> 
> In fact, and why did you not add that file? Obviously we could create
> a simple port as a run dependency of setuptools, that installs only
> that file with a minimal content, so not having to worry about it when
> you update setuptools.

Wouldn't it be better to package it as an extra file *with* setuptools?
If it's only used by setuptools, creating a separate dummy port seems 
odd.
Just add it to files/ or something.

- Nikolai Lifanov