[PATCH resubmission-after-33-cycle] setup.py: attempt to use setuptools

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 02/10/2015 03:50 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 05:14:15PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 17:09 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 18:52 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
>>>> # HG changeset patch
>>>> # User Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
>>>> # Date 1421431223 28800
>>>> #      Fri Jan 16 10:00:23 2015 -0800
>>>> # Node ID 975f6586908de6526bf5165d09f8622437a682e5
>>>> # Parent  a9b61dbdb827165a9fd9d44dd42b892dbd9fa07c
>>>> setup.py: attempt to use setuptools
>>>
>>> Ok, queued, thanks. check-code says hi.
>>
>> Also, run-tests explodes with pages of build spew on both Centos and
>> Debian. Please investigate.
>
> I re-queued this, and have re-dropped it. I still get pages of spew on
> firefly. I didn't test anywhere else. Sample output:
>
> warning: Testing with unexpected mercurial lib: /tmp/hgtests.MZx6LB/install/lib/python/mercurial-3.3_114_65cb46ed0c43-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/mercurial
>           (expected /tmp/hgtests.MZx6LB/install/lib/python/mercurial)


This patch is apparently moving the install from good old python package 
to eggs.

Eggs are very (very) evil and we should -not- switch to them. I've a 
strong -1 for this patch

(I know it is already dropped, but for less clear reason)


-- 
Pierre-Yves David