471244 - Put setuptools into default build reference platform

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[cmtalbert]

Since we are developing more and more helper infrastructure in python, it is starting to make sense to install python's setuptools to simplify deployment of python code and dependencies on build slaves in the future.

This came up in bug 457265, where it would greatly simplify installing Mozmill onto the build slaves.  Axel noted that he's been hoping for setuptools to bring code down to the build slaves as well.  Setuptools is a lightweight dependency resolving installation mechanism for python packages.

Putting this into our default build platform will help us have a more flexible infrastructure in the future which we'll need as we do more complicated infrastructure and test work with python code.

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

releng won't be using setuptools, but we can try to get this into our ref platforms in the next update pass.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

We do all of our deployment on the build machines (and soon Talos) through Puppet and OPSI these days. We won't be putting setuptools on the ref platform.

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Moving closed Future bugs into Release Engineering in preparation for removing the Future component.