Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] package/pkg-python.mk: migrate setuptools to pep517

From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>,
	Gustavo Heinz <gustavo@gsthnz.com>,
	Michael Rommel <rommel@layer-7.net>,
	Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>,
	Guillaume William Brs <guillaume.bressaix@gmail.com>,
	Asaf Kahlon <asafka7@gmail.com>,
	Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>,
	Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org,
	Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] package/pkg-python.mk: migrate setuptools to pep517
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:53:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230710195338.6ba40839@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230626181531.2312002-5-james.hilliard1@gmail.com>

Hello James,

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:15:31 -0600
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that setuptools and its dependencies are using pep517 we can
> migrate the setuptools infrastructure itself to use the pep517
> build frontend.
> 
> As part of this we need to migrate the all python packages using
> _BUILD_OPTS to the new config settings format used by the pep517
> build frontend.
> 
> We also need to add a patch fixing a bug in python-pypa-build which
> was preventing the config settings from being passed to some of the
> pep517 build hooks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>

Could you clarify the relationship between this PATCH 5/5 and the rest
of the series? They are part of the same series, so there must be some
kind of relationship, but I fail to see which one.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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