Qt for Python (PySide/Shiboken)

Can anyone help me shed some light on why I can't build PySide 6.3.0?: https://gist.github.com/keithel/2b18e36471b46225ff005ceb84e6abaf ImportError: cannot import name 'build_py' from 'setuptools._distutils.command' (/home/vagrant/Build/swift-nav/console_pp/py39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/__init__.py) setuptools/_distutils/command/build_py.py exists, and does define a class called build_py...

maybe updating setuptools?

Well, that took longer than I thought to test.. My build script kept wiping out the python env and recreating it, so my setuptools upgrade was just being thrown away. Now that I fixed the script, and setuptools is up-to-date (62.1.0), it still fails in the same manner.. I don't understand what it's complaining about.

no idea, but clearly the issue is between distutils and setuptools. So the thing is that locally we migrated from distutils to setuptools. In later version setuptools included some distutils functionallity to enable a better migration. You might want to do the from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py command on a shell instead of running the whole build script and try to find the proper version that is working for you. Setuptools is a big module that's changing quite a lot, you might need a lower version as well, but I cannot tell you from the top of my heart which one. Some of them had issues, and we blacklisted some of them before 48.0, but maybe some around 5X.YY or installing manually distutils might help, but again, be aware of versions. Couldn't find any open issue, so it might be a problem with the latest.

mmm but on the error setuptools is on 60.5.0 (gistfile1.txt) and on the repl 62.1.0) I hope you tried to reproduce the error on the repl with the 60.5 version

I didn't - but I was also seeing the error with setuptools 62.1.0. I will try with 60.5.0 on REPL

if the repl doesn't fail, then something's messing up with the build instruction directly

One suggestion I got was it could be an interaction with setuptools-rust