systematic issue with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST

[William Grzybowski]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:19 AM, William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Nicola Vitale <nivit at freebsd.org> 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...
>
> It would just make it more complex, plus we would need to rebuild all
> easy_install packages. Unless I'm missing something more obvious
>
>>> 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.
>
> Because I've been quite busy with work and had no time to figure out
> how to manually create that file, I need to investigate if it is
> somehow platform agnostic or what.
> I see no reason to create a new port but bundle it with setuptools.

I took some time and verified easy-install.pth has no magic involved
in the source code (setuptools/easy_install.py) and added the static
file files/easy_install.pth.dist.
I've sent it for another exp-run, lets see how it goes this time.


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William Grzybowski
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