On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 21:34, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> When invoking setup.py directly, the default behavior for 'install' is
> to run the bdist_egg installation hook, which is ... actually deprecated
> by setuptools. It doesn't seem to work quite right anymore.
>
> By contrast, 'pip install' will invoke the bdist_wheel hook
> instead. This leads to differences in behavior for the two approaches. I
> advocate using pip in the documentation in this directory, but the
> 'setup.py' which has been used for quite a long time in the Python world
> may deceptively appear to work at first glance.
>
> Add an error message that will save a bit of time and frustration
> that points the user towards using the supported installation
> invocation.
While we're on the topic of python installation, is there any way
to suppress or otherwise deal with the warning Meson prints out?
WARNING: Broken python installation detected. Python files installed
by Meson might not be found by python interpreter.
(I vaguely recall tracking down a meson bug, and this seems to be
some issue the meson developers have with the way Ubuntu/Debian
have done their python packaging. But I forget the details.)
thanks
-- PMM
Unknown, I don't think I see this message on Fedora. Are you seeing it from Debian? I'll see if it shows up in any of the VM build tests.