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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:47:37 +0100
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On 18.01.22 16:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>> Also, considering the failure on prairiedog, I do see now on
>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/sysconfig.html; that the sysconfig
>> module is "New in version 3.2".  I had interpreted the fact that it
>> exists in version 2.7 that that includes all higher versions, but
>> obviously there were multiple branches involved, so that was a mistaken
>> assumption.
> 
> Hm.  I installed 3.1 because we claim support for that.  I don't mind
> updating to 3.2 (as long as we adjust the docs to match), but it seems
> kinda moot unless you figure out a solution for the include-path
> issue.  I see that platforms as recent as Debian 10 are failing,
> so I don't think we can dismiss that as not needing fixing.

I have reverted this for now.

I don't have a clear idea how to fix this in the long run.  We would 
perhaps need to determine at which points the various platforms had 
fixed this issue in their Python installations and select between the 
old and the new approach based on that.  Seems messy.

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