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Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools (lwn.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Discussing a breaking change in Python's setuptools.

The really interesting part is in the discussion section.... and it shows once more how incredibly well-designed the GNU Guix package manager is -- which solves these problems very very well, for arbitrary languages and with a fast growing distribution of, by now, about 50,000 packages.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

So, how many users of Debian would even think about creating own packages?

I already have a hunch what went wrong: they were probably trying to package software that has no standard build system. This is painful because the standard tools, like GNU autotools for C programs, or cmake, or setuptools or its newer siblings for python, make sure that the right commands are used to build a package on whatever platform, and that, importantly, its components are installed into the right places. If they don't use these, they will have a problem to build packages for any standard distribution.

Guix has support for all the mayor build systems (otherwise, it could not support building of 50000 packages).