Setuptools is the preferred method to manage Python distributions after
many changes to the packaging ecosystem over the past couple of years.
Only ports using USE_PYDISTUTILS= yes are affected by this commit, ports using
USE_PYDISTUTILS= easy_install remains the same however this usage is now
deprecated and should be converted to USE_PYDISTUTILS= yes.
Some Python distributions do not work with setuptools out of the box because
they extend the install command from distutils and not setuptools, and
so they need to be patched accordingly.
pip (which leverages setuptools) works around the issue by using eggs, however
we want to get rid of those as well, as support for "flat" installation is
unavailable or has other issues associated with it.
This work allows us to unify how python packages are built, ensure that Python
distributions are installed consistently, reduces complexity for Python port
maintainers and paves the way for simplifying the Python ports framework in
the future.
With hat on: python
Reviewed by: koobs, antoine
Exp-run: bdrewery
Approved by: bdrewery (portmgr)
changelog:
- 1.11.0 is mostly a bug fix release, but two new features are support
for the $GENERATE syntax and the TLSA RR type.
- A number of bugs have been fixed as well.
- Python 2.4 or later is required.
- convert to optionsng
while here:
- limit python version to 2.x only
- remove deprecated attribution in pkg-descr
PR: 171786
Submitted by: William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail dot com>
Approved by: Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy at gmail dot com> (prev maintainer)
had both lines:
Author: ...
WWW: ....
So standardize on that, and move them to the end of the file when necessary.
Also fix some more whitespace, and remove more "signature tags" of varying
forms, like -- name, etc.
s/AUTHOR/Author/
A few other various formatting issues
