runtime api incompatible with setuptools 0.6c11?

[Robert Collins]

Had a bug discussion on mock, which uses pbr. The runtime API couldn't find the package version until the user upgraded their setuptools from 0.6c11 to a current version.

https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock/issues/314#issuecomment-147133794

If we can reproduce this and determine the minimum version we work with, we should probably make it an error when folk try to install with < than that.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Note for anyone reading this - the bug needs someone who cares about support for very old (> 8 years) versions of setuptools to reproduce and do a binary bisection to figure out when the api really works, and write workaround code to detect it. Its a hypothetical rather than user-acceptance level bug in pbr: the failure is 'fails to detect very old broken thing is very old and broken'.

[Stephen Finucane (stephenfinucane)]

setuptools 0.6c11 is basically pre-historic at this point, so I'm going to close this as a won't fix. If someone really cares about this, feel free to re-open (ideally with suggestions on how to fix it).