[Biopython] Fwd: [Numpy-discussion] setuptools/distutils merger & numpy.distutils

[Peter Cock]

FYI, I’ve seen some recent continuous integration failures likely linked to
setuptools v50.0.0 - might affect Biopython too?

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From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 11:34
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] setuptools/distutils merger & numpy.distutils
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion at python.org>


Hi all,

I spent some time looking at the fallout of the setuptools 50.0 release.
There's quite a few small issues, those can/should all be worked around by
pinning setuptools to a lower version.

The root cause and main longer-term issue is that numpy.distutils extends
and monkeypatches distutils, which mostly was fine because distutils moved
super slowly and had a decent QA process. Now with setuptools, any patch
goes into master and gets released to the whole wide world without any
testing. The summary of that and how to deal with it I posted on
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2372 for discussion.

Cheers,
Ralf



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