Bug 254168

Summary:	webkitcorepy fails to install with setuptools >= 60.0.0
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Ryan Reno <rreno>
Component:	Tools / Tests	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	ap, jbedard, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
See Also:	https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261103

Description Ryan Reno 2023-03-20 11:54:42 PDT

setuptools made some changes regarding distutils for version 60. By adding the environment variable `SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib` setuptools will use the standard library version of distutils and succeed building webkitcorepy. Otherwise, it will fail an assertion with a stack trace similar to this:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2993

We'll need to take this into account when we bump our setuptools requirement.

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2023-03-20 11:54:52 PDT

<rdar://problem/106955577>

Comment 2 Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] 2023-08-23 12:11:26 PDT

Specifically: we should drop our usage of distuils, given it's deprecated and going away.

Comment 3 Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] 2023-09-03 09:17:49 PDT

Ryan: what entrypoint were you using such that you hit this?