WIP: Update recipe to version 34.1.1

[jjhelmus]

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[conda-forge-linter]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipe) and found it was in an excellent condition.

[jjhelmus]

setuptools 34.x.x removed the vendored dependencies which requires that they be installed separately. With 34.1.1 this can be done without pip. There is still a bit of an issue with circular dependencies as six, appsdir and packaging require setuptools as a build requirement, but none of them require setuptools as a run time requirement.

[jakirkham]

Should we build the last release of 33 first? Any other actions we need to take with the dependencies?

[jjhelmus]

Should we build the last release of 33 first?

I have no opinion on if a 33.1.1 release is needed. The changes for that release do not seem too major to warrent a seperate issue.

Any other actions we need to take with the dependencies?

I do not believe so. Since we already have setuptools conda packages and its dependencies, there should not be an issue with continuing to build new versions. Creating a setuptools package for a new version of Python or a new platform will require some work but I think that can be dealt with when we get to that point.

[jakirkham]

Side note: Issue ( pypa/setuptools#980 ) looks to be of interest.

[jakirkham]

I guess we can't avoid having these as build dependencies too, right?

[jakirkham]

Merged with master to resolve conflicts.

[jakirkham]

Would really appreciate if some people took a look at and chimed in on issue ( pypa/setuptools#980 ). The future of setuptools is under discussion as well as how one has to package it.

cc @conda-forge/core @conda-forge/setuptools @mingwandroid

[mingwandroid]

Thanks for the info @jakirkham, my only comment here is to say that being able to bootstrap an entire distribution is extremely important and that when dependencies end up cyclic that is no longer possible. Is my reading of the situation close to the mark?

If it is of any use as a data-point, I have successfully bootstrapped a cross-compiled Miniconda-like distribution based on conda-forge recipes recently with setuptools 33.1.1.

If there's anything I can do to help this situation then please let me know. Using pre-built binaries is not possible when bootstrapping for a new platform.

[mwcraig]

Sorry, but I really don't have anything useful to contribute (read the issue you referenced, at least until my eyes glazed over).

[patricksnape]

Yikes, that's a mess. Not sure what I can do but happy to help.

[nicoddemus]

Superseded by #66