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Re: Python Wheel Related Policy Change

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Hi Scott (2020.04.30_16:23:41_+0000)
> Making dirtbike build a py3 wheel for setuptools (and pkg_resources), which is 
> technically accurate at this point since dirtbike can't build wheels from a 
> python2 package was trivial to do:
> 
>  dirtbike/__init__.py | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Three of the five insertions were comment.

That seems reasonable, although if we're going down that road, it
probably makes no sense for any of them to be universal.

> If someone wants to provide a patch to dirtbike so it can also build wheels 
> from python-setuptools and python-pkg-resources, then we could add then to 
> build-depends and provide both a set of py2 wheels and py3 wheels for as long 
> as they are in the archive.

The window for doing this is probably closing, too.

I hacked this in Ubuntu 20.04, just before release:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/475592029/python-pip_20.0.2-5_20.0.2-5ubuntu1.diff.gz

As you can see, python-wheel is no longer available, and some of the
other libraries dirtbike uses are probably heading that way.

So, to make that approach work, we have to introduce more py2-only
libraries again, or allow dirtbike to build py2 wheels while running
under python3.

> It still needs the Python policy change since they aren't universal, but it 
> would allow setuptools to keep up for python3 in pip without dropping the 
> local wheels from python2.  We also have ipaddr back in the archive to support 
> wheeling it so pip will run with python2.

But, without the py2 setuptools wheels, I don't know much that buys us.

Long-term: pypy (2.7) is going to continue to be around, until rpython
moves to python3 (which is still officially never, but people are
starting to poke at it).
https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-support-python2

If we have a python 2 interpreter, it's really nice to have working
virtualenv for it. Makes it a lot more useful for users, esp. as we
don't have many debian libraries packaged for it.

So, the options are:
1. pin pip dependencies at versions that support py2, forever. Obviously
   this is a no-go.
2. Ship py2 and py3 wheels.
   2.1. package the py2 weels with dirtbike. This requires bringing back
        python-wheel, or more work on dirtbike.
   2.2. Ship static py2 wheels (like we did pre-dirtbike). It's not like
        upstream is continuing development...
3. Let virtualenv always download pip from pypi for py2. Only ship py3
   wheels.

The easy options here are 2.2 and 3.

SR

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        Re: Python Wheel Related Policy Change Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2020-04-30 20:40 +0200
          Re: Python Wheel Related Policy Change Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-04-30 22:40 +0200
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