[PATCH STABLE] setup: properly package distutils in py2exe virtualenv builds

[Gregory Szorc]

# HG changeset patch
# User Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
# Date 1555770547 25200
#      Sat Apr 20 07:29:07 2019 -0700
# Branch stable
# Node ID f9255e70f459cda1391194497b23346f3a402997
# Parent  84b5ad5fc2aa81d114d0c8ff869367104e997dd3
setup: properly package distutils in py2exe virtualenv builds

Our in-repo py2exe packaging code uses virtualenvs for managing
dependencies. An advantage of this is that packaging is more
deterministic and reproducible. Without virtualenvs, we need to
install packages in the system Python install. Packages installed
by other consumers of the system Python could leak into the Mercurial
package.

A regression from this change was that py2exe packages contained
the virtualenv's hacked distutils modules instead of the original
distutils modules. (virtualenv installs a hacked distutils module
because distutils uses relative path lookups that fail when running
from a virtualenv.)

This commit introduces a workaround so py2exe packaging uses the
original distutils modules when running from a virtualenv.

With this change, `import distutils` no longer fails from py2exe
builds produced from a virtualenv. This fixes the regression.
Furthermore, we now include all distutils modules. Before, py2exe's
module finding would only find modules there were explicitly
referenced in code. So, we now package a complete copy of distutils
instead of a partial one. This is even better than before.

# no-check-commit foo_bar function name

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -937,6 +937,80 @@ class hginstallscripts(install_scripts):
             with open(outfile, 'wb') as fp:
                 fp.write(data)
 
+# virtualenv installs custom distutils/__init__.py and
+# distutils/distutils.cfg files which essentially proxy back to the
+# "real" distutils in the main Python install. The presence of this
+# directory causes py2exe to pick up the "hacked" distutils package
+# from the virtualenv and "import distutils" will fail from the py2exe
+# build because the "real" distutils files can't be located.
+#
+# We work around this by monkeypatching the py2exe code finding Python
+# modules to replace the found virtualenv distutils modules with the
+# original versions via filesystem scanning. This is a bit hacky. But
+# it allows us to use virtualenvs for py2exe packaging, which is more
+# deterministic and reproducible.
+#
+# It's worth noting that the common StackOverflow suggestions for this
+# problem involve copying the original distutils files into the
+# virtualenv or into the staging directory after setup() is invoked.
+# The former is very brittle and can easily break setup(). Our hacking
+# of the found modules routine has a similar result as copying the files
+# manually. But it makes fewer assumptions about how py2exe works and
+# is less brittle.
+
+# This only catches virtualenvs made with virtualenv (as opposed to
+# venv, which is likely what Python 3 uses).
+py2exehacked = py2exeloaded and getattr(sys, 'real_prefix', None) is not None
+
+if py2exehacked:
+    from distutils.command.py2exe import py2exe as buildpy2exe
+    from py2exe.mf import Module as py2exemodule
+
+    class hgbuildpy2exe(buildpy2exe):
+        def find_needed_modules(self, mf, files, modules):
+            res = buildpy2exe.find_needed_modules(self, mf, files, modules)
+
+            # Replace virtualenv's distutils modules with the real ones.
+            res.modules = {
+                k: v for k, v in res.modules.items()
+                if k != 'distutils' and not k.startswith('distutils.')}
+
+            import opcode
+            distutilsreal = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(opcode.__file__),
+                                         'distutils')
+
+            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(distutilsreal):
+                for f in sorted(files):
+                    if not f.endswith('.py'):
+                        continue
+
+                    full = os.path.join(root, f)
+
+                    parents = ['distutils']
+
+                    if root != distutilsreal:
+                        rel = os.path.relpath(root, distutilsreal)
+                        parents.extend(p for p in rel.split(os.sep))
+
+                    modname = '%s.%s' % ('.'.join(parents), f[:-3])
+
+                    if modname.startswith('distutils.tests.'):
+                        continue
+
+                    if modname.endswith('.__init__'):
+                        modname = modname[:-len('.__init__')]
+                        path = os.path.dirname(full)
+                    else:
+                        path = None
+
+                    res.modules[modname] = py2exemodule(modname, full,
+                                                        path=path)
+
+            if 'distutils' not in res.modules:
+                raise SystemExit('could not find distutils modules')
+
+            return res
+
 cmdclass = {'build': hgbuild,
             'build_doc': hgbuilddoc,
             'build_mo': hgbuildmo,
@@ -950,6 +1024,9 @@ cmdclass = {'build': hgbuild,
             'build_hgexe': buildhgexe,
             }
 
+if py2exehacked:
+    cmdclass['py2exe'] = hgbuildpy2exe
+
 packages = ['mercurial',
             'mercurial.cext',
             'mercurial.cffi',