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[PATCH 00/14] Introducing pyproject-build-system.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
Subject: [bug#58587] [PATCH 01/14] gnu: python-setuptools: Move to python-build.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:34:16 -0400

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skriver:

[...]

>>> +        '(for-each delete-file (find-files "setuptools"
>>> +                                           "^(cli|gui).*\\.exe$")))))
>>> +    (build-system python-build-system)
>>> +    ;; FIXME: Tests require pytest, which itself relies on setuptools.
>>> +    ;; One could bootstrap with an internal untested setuptools.
>>> +    (arguments (list #:tests? #f))
>>> +    (home-page "https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/")
>>> +    (synopsis "Library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects")
>>> +    (description "Setuptools is a fully-featured, stable library designed to
>>> +facilitate packaging Python projects, where packaging includes:
>>> +@itemize
>>> +@item Python package and module definitions
>>> +@item distribution package metadata
>>> +@item test hooks
>>> +@item project installation
>>> +@item platform-specific details.
>>> +@end itemize")
>>> +    ;; TODO: setuptools now bundles the following libraries:
>>> +    ;; packaging, pyparsing, six and appdirs. How to unbundle?
>>
>> A better place for this TODO would be next to the snippet in the origin,
>> perhaps?
>
> The comments were taken verbatim from the current package definition.
>
> I'll submit a follow-up commit with these changes.

I noticed when I got to read the removal part of the diff ;-).  Sorry
for giving you more work!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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