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Test failures on EL7 #73
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what setuptools version is availiable there? this looks like something went very wrong and the outdated setuptools detection is not triggering |
python-setuptools-0.9.8-4.el7.noarch |
that version is too old to properly supports setuptools_scm as of now, |
Well, it's unlikely to be updated in EL7 any time soon, so it would be nice to at least have some level of support for it. what would need to be changed/fixed? |
the main problem is lack of the version parser, which is used to sanely handle version number prefixes, details about correct version numbers and other details, its tedious busywork with a lot of room for errors |
also note that actual sdists and wheels will not have any issue on EL7, its just the tag to version number transformation thats broken an alternative to sanely handle it is to create a virtualenv with a reasonable version of pip/setuptools7wheel |
btw, this one relates to #61 |
closing since its a old setuptools on dev env issue - as alternative try an use the |
I'm getting the following test failures on EL7:
With:
git-1.8.3.1-6.el7.x86_64
mercurial-2.6.2-4.el7.x86_64
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