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Location warning messages for MSYS2

See original GitHub issue

cc @rupanshu1710 @stephan-cr @mitchellmebane

Opening a new one for this so the discussion doesn’t get drowned by reports for other platforms. I’ve set up MSYS2 but am confused a bit how I should proceed (having only limited experience with the platform). MSYS2 seems to be multiple Python packages. Do you know how those (e.g. python and mingw-w64-python) are different? Which one are you using?

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10151#issuecomment-886185018 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10151#issuecomment-888288679 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10151#issuecomment-888647104

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Created 2 years ago
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uranusjrcommented, Aug 8, 2021

I’m keeping everything in the source code; each issue I’ve reported (but yet to be fixed) have a comment in pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py linking to an issue somewhere.

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uranusjrcommented, Aug 8, 2021

Thanks for the information! I tried pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python; it did not give a working python command, but I was able to locate the package detail on MSYS2’s index. Things work after I added /mingw64/bin to PATH.

So this seems like a distributor bug. MSYS2 patches distutils and sysconfig to provide a POSIX-like scheme (the default scheme would be something like {prefix}/Lib/site-packages on Windows). But their patch on sysconfig is incorrectly omitting the site-packages part. So the warning is correct, and we need MSYS2 to fix this.

I browsed around the site and it seems like MINGW package bugs should be reported to https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages. I’ll submit an entry there and see how things go. If any of ya’ll happen to know a better place to raise this issue, please tell me as well.