Re: Python Wheel Related Policy Change

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On April 30, 2020 7:21:39 AM UTC, Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
>On 4/30/20 5:28 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> I think Python policy changes should be discussed.  I accidentally
>committed a 
>> change to git [1] (I didn't realize I still had access, I thought it
>would be 
>> a merge request) to allow Python 3 only wheels for packages that
>require 
>> wheels, but that no longer support Python 2.  This is going to happen
>the next 
>> time I upload python-pip since the current version of setuptools is
>python3 
>> only.
>
>this is not true. python-setuptools is still built from the source
>packages
>python-setuptools.  Is there a reason that you cannot use it?

In the short run, the blocker is that dirtbike doesn't support it.  In the longer run I think adding back python2 dependencies is not a good idea.

At best it's a short-term avoidance mechanism.

>> Hopefully this won't be controversial.  There's really no way to
>> avoid it.
>
>well, better don't assume that.

It's true that there is a short-term alternative, but I think it's a waste of effort to try and implement it.  At most it only buys you until the next pip vendored lib that we unbundle as a wheel goes python3 only.

Are you volunteering to rewrite dirtbike so it can make a universal wheel from python-setuptools?

Personally, I'm not interested.  If you add the word reasonable to my original statement, I stand bye it.  

Scott K