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| author | Charlie Li <vishwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-03-07 21:15:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Charlie Li <vishwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-03-07 23:05:17 -0500 |
| commit | bc7ed2ccd62e3bb0b76cea6f261558a121aa422a (patch) | |
| tree | 2b3f282269dcf93c7a653eb4be8d58b1459f2730 | |
| parent | x11-wm/notion: New port: Tiling tabbed window manager (diff) | |
python.mk: remove setuptools from RUN_DEPENDS
Historically this was needed as a RUN_DEPENDS due to consumers using
the included pkg_resources, which has been deprecated for some time
now in favour of the importlib suite. (pkg_resources consumers are
strongly advised to migrate to importlib et al.)
PR: 270510
Reviewed by: crees, rm
Tested by: jhale, wen
exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39303
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Mk/Uses/python.mk | 1 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -10,6 +10,26 @@ in the release notes and/or placed into UPDATING. All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file. +20250307: +AUTHOR: python@FreeBSD.org + + setuptools has been removed as a RUN_DEPENDS for USE_PYTHON=distutils + ports, except for those operating under Python 2. If your port + needs setuptools to run, you can add it back to RUN_DEPENDS, but + keep in mind that this practice is deprecated and discouraged in + the greater Python ecosystem. + + setuptools includes a module, pkg_resources, that historically + has been used as a runtime API for "finding, introspecting, + activating and using installed Python distributions." These + functions have been superseded by the importlib family and the + packaging package. + + setuptools also includes their own copy of distutils, which is + not present in the base Python distribution starting in 3.12. The + use of distutils primitives directly in consumers is also discouraged + and deprecated. + 20250306: AUTHOR: jhale@FreeBSD.org diff --git a/Mk/Uses/python.mk b/Mk/Uses/python.mk index 6c3b0681032a..5159c006b9da 100644 --- a/Mk/Uses/python.mk +++ b/Mk/Uses/python.mk @@ -675,7 +675,6 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools44>0:devel/py-setuptools44@${P RUN_DEPENDS+= ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools44>0:devel/py-setuptools44@${PY_FLAVOR} . else BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=63.1.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} -RUN_DEPENDS+= ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=63.1.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} . endif . endif |