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List:       openembedded-core
Subject:    Re: [OE-core] PEP 517 and PEP 621 support on Dunfell?
From:       "Ross Burton" <ross.burton () arm ! com>
Date:       2023-02-28 16:14:44
Message-ID: DDD6EA4D-08CA-473B-B291-ECBB71686B92 () arm ! com
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On 28 Feb 2023, at 15:00, Ernst Sjöstrand via lists.openembedded.org \
<ernstp=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> more and more Python projects are removing their setup.py and setup.cfg and \
> switching to pyproject.toml. That unfortunately means you can't install those \
> packages on Yocto Dunfell. 
> Would it be reasonable to backport support for this to Dunfell? I see that the \
> changes done for this support was actually kindof big, and as usual updating \
> setuptools will probably cause some old package version to fail to install instead.

The changes were kind of big, and I do worry that they'd break stuff that is expected \
to work.

A "mixin" layer which just contains the new classes and recipes would be a much \
better approach for Dunfell.

Ross



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