Re: [PATCH 00/14] Change python-build-system (fixes bug 20765)

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 07:31:01PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 02.10.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> >
> >> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] guix: python-build-system: Import setuptools before
> >>  calling `setup.py'.
> >>
> >> This is needed for packages using "distutils" instead of "setuptools"
> >> since the former does not understand the
> >> "--single-version-externally-managed" flag. Also export __file__ since
> >> it will be unset when setup.py is called from python "exec".
> > Please move this explanation as a comment right above the newly-added
> > code.
> 
> @marius: I already added this comment, see the fixups on my branch at
> gitlab (which I'm going to clean up when we all agree on the result).

Let us know when the two of you think the code is ready to be tested on
Hydra, and I will set it up.