Re: [PATCH v1] configure: remove python pkg_resources check

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 24/11/2020 22.19, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Since meson.git#0240d760c7699a059cc89e584363c6431cdd2b61 setuptools is not required anymore.

That commit was part of meson 0.55.1. We require at least meson 0.55.3. So
right, this should be fine.

> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> ---
>  configure | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 8c5d2f9a69..ce9b3c0a33 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1913,9 +1913,6 @@ fi
>  
>  case "$meson" in
>      git | internal)
> -        if ! $python -c 'import pkg_resources' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> -            error_exit "Python setuptools not found"
> -        fi
>          meson="$python ${source_path}/meson/meson.py"
>          ;;
>      *) meson=$(command -v "$meson") ;;

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

I guess we could now also remove the corresponding package from the docker
and vm files?

$ grep -r setuptool tests/
tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian10.docker:     python3-setuptools \
tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker:    python3-setuptools \
tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker:    python3-setuptools \
tests/vm/freebsd:        "py37-setuptools",
tests/vm/openbsd:        "py3-setuptools",
tests/vm/haiku.x86_64:        "setuptools_python3"
tests/vm/netbsd:        "py37-setuptools",