| 24 Aug 2025 |
 Alyssa Ross | If a package is available for the chosen interpreter, ``configure``
prepares a small script that invokes it from the venv itself\ [#distlib]_.
If not, ``configure`` can also optionally install dependencies in the
virtual environment with ``pip``, either from wheels in ``python/wheels``
or by downloading the package with PyPI. Downloading can be disabled with
``--disable-download``; and anyway, it only happens when a ``configure``
option (currently, only ``--enable-docs``) is explicitly enabled but
the dependencies are not present.
| 18:52:42 |
| Alyssa Ross | So docs does make a difference? | 18:52:50 |
| Alyssa Ross | * If a package is available for the chosen interpreter, ``configure``
prepares a small script that invokes it from the venv itself\ [#distlib]_.
If not, ``configure`` can also optionally install dependencies in the
virtual environment with ``pip``, either from wheels in ``python/wheels``
or by downloading the package with PyPI. Downloading can be disabled with
``--disable-download``; and anyway, it only happens when a ``configure``
option (currently, only ``--enable-docs``) is explicitly enabled but
the dependencies are not present.
| 18:52:58 |
| Alyssa Ross | does --disable-download make a difference then? | 18:53:15 |
 dramforever | yes, this fixes qemu-user | 18:54:40 |
| dramforever | testing full qemu rn | 18:54:43 |
| dramforever | sorry, i meant https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/commit/e651d115d5f2a6d37661578370993d345d97c71c did break it | 18:55:31 |
| dramforever | appliable diff https://fars.ee/B0XU | 18:56:48 |
| dramforever | i suspect hexa just did not see the python3Packages below | 18:57:53 |
| dramforever | and decided to just wrap it while not knowing what's going on | 18:58:03 |
 hexa | yup, but it also fixed the native build | 18:58:43 |
| hexa | sorry if it broke cross | 18:58:46 |
| dramforever | no, it also broke native | 18:58:54 |
| dramforever | qemu-user, specifically | 18:59:00 |
 tpw_rules | it fixed the build but the resulting binary doesn't work | 18:59:01 |
| hexa | it worked on python-updates | 18:59:04 |
| Alyssa Ross | qemu-user did? | 18:59:08 |
| hexa | ok | 18:59:08 |
| tpw_rules | it didn't | 18:59:12 |
| hexa | the build worked, I did not test qemu | 18:59:22 |
| dramforever | qemu still worked, qemu-user didn't work | 18:59:23 |
| hexa | ok | 18:59:27 |
| dramforever | so, anyway, any reason to wrap instead of python3Packages like before? | 18:59:50 |
| hexa | feel free to unwrap, I'm honestly not sure how python environments compose without | 19:00:12 |
| tpw_rules | yes dram can confirm that patch works | 19:00:29 |
| tpw_rules | i'm not sure what exactly in the python updates changed to make distlib mandatory, i sort of got halfway there in bisecting | 19:00:50 |
| tpw_rules | but it's definitely that PR somewhere | 19:01:17 |
| tpw_rules | guess this also makes artturin's earlier PR redundant? | 19:01:42 |
| tpw_rules | or does that still need to be mixed in somehow? | 19:01:49 |
| dramforever | quick q how do i retract a request changes | 19:02:42 |
