Setuptools 3.7 and newer breaks installation of many packages

[Alex Gaynor]

At a minimum it breaks installation python-daemon, but I suspect this impacts many more jobs. This means the requirements jobs won't pass, and probably a bunch of other bugs.

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/213/newest-setuptools-breaks-installation-of is the upstream tracking bug.

[Sukhdev Kapur (sukhdev-8)]

I am also hitting this bug. Please see:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/97125/

[Matthew Oliver (matt-0)]

I've been having this issue as well. It seems to be setuptools version 4.0 from pip.

I know we don't want to pin it, but I got around in our CI system by setting pinning it in requirements.txt as:
  setuptools<4.0

[Matthew Oliver (matt-0)]

Wow, my English is good today!

I meant to say, I have pinned it in turbo-hipsters requirements.txt as:
  setuptools<4.0

So my TH nodepool images would build and run.

[Alex Gaynor (alex-gaynor)]

Playing around locally I saw the issue on any release newer than 3.6. Are you saying that 3.7 and 3.8 are confirmed to work for you?

[Thomas Herve (therve)]

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/213/regression-setuptools-37-installation is the upstream bug.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Marking as duplicate of the one we're ER tracking