<div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>I wanted to make pulp-cli portable and build PEX archive out of it but the latest pex (2.1.56) fails to do so:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">```</font></div><div><font face="monospace">$ pex -v -c pulp 'pulp-cli[pygments]'<br></font><div><font face="monospace">...</font></div><div><font face="monospace">Running PEX file at /tmp/tmpdy35exye with args []<br>pex: PEX.run invoking /home/hc/pex/bin/python3 -s -E /tmp/tmpdy35exye<br>pex: Re-executing: cmdline='/usr/bin/python3.10 /tmp/tmpdy35exye', sys.executable='/home/hc/pex/bin/python3', PEX_PYTHON=None, PEX_PYTHON_PATH=None, interpreter_constraints=[]<br>pex: Found site-library: /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Found site-library: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Found site-library: /usr/local/lib64/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Found site-library: /usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Tainted path element: /usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Tainted path element: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Scrubbing from user site: /home/hc/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Scrubbing from site-packages: /usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: Scrubbing from site-packages: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages<br>pex: New sys.path: ['/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap', '/tmp/tmpdy35exye', '/usr/lib64/python310.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.10', '/usr/lib64/python3.10/lib-dynload']<br>pex: Activating PEX virtual environment from /tmp/tmpdy35exye: 54.7ms<br>pex: Bootstrap complete, performing final sys.path modifications...<br>pex: PYTHONPATH contains:<br>pex:     /tmp/tmpdy35exye<br>pex:   * /usr/lib64/python310.zip<br>pex:     /usr/lib64/python3.10<br>pex:     /usr/lib64/python3.10/lib-dynload<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/7679cb4a5378680b93c1f33b463094a55cf8c547/pulp_cli-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/23fff3a23c744ec73d03f9639bec17d3745b762c/click-8.0.3-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/bc1215388f22b27f973bc1bc3d74a96373404ac9/packaging-21.3-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/33b6478f39bfd332868d887340fd44164373dfb4/pyparsing-3.0.6-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/5aa8517e7212729e4c0b95fab8b765c01e48f97c/PyYAML-5.4.1-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/cd6d3dfd86e52a31a3664cff69214a5dd94161e7/schema-0.7.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/c29688d87604522b7f9aa8a178a6a21b6a9fe775/contextlib2-21.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/d20e2df000dd43249c3a9eed041f08a812a93423/requests-2.26.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/601e0a29cd7d663eb8ea40c3ba7a52200e2544c0/urllib3-1.26.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/883fca1b3199ac78822a54c4af0a01c1f7a7ea74/certifi-2021.10.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/7e4deb9e3d26e447cfdd8c00b13805d8d2a65fca/charset_normalizer-2.0.9-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/5485a373e7aae71ef1d2c02b8b09c330b75c5248/idna-3.3-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/a55ae166e643e6c7a28c16fe005efc32ee98ee76/toml-0.10.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/8dd8170137ab3f4dc94d5006227635731b451dd1/Pygments-2.10.0-py3-none-any.whl<br>pex:     /tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap<br>pex:   * - paths that do not exist or will be imported via zipimport<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 476, in execute<br>    exit_value = self._wrap_coverage(self._wrap_profiling, self._execute)<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 401, in _wrap_coverage<br>    return runner(*args)<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 432, in _wrap_profiling<br>    return runner(*args)<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 532, in _execute<br>    return self.execute_entry(self._pex_info.entry_point)<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 668, in execute_entry<br>    return self.execute_pkg_resources(entry_point)<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/pex.py", line 699, in execute_pkg_resources<br>    runner = entry.resolve()<br>  File "/tmp/tmpdy35exye/.bootstrap/pex/vendor/_vendored/setuptools/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2481, in resolve<br>    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)<br>  File "/home/hc/.pex/installed_wheels/7679cb4a5378680b93c1f33b463094a55cf8c547/pulp_cli-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl/pulpcore/cli/common/__init__.py", line 7, in <module><br>    import pkg_resources<br>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace">```</font></div><div><br></div><div>As I understand, this happens because setup.py <a href="https://github.com/pulp/pulp-cli/blob/cfa096774946c0d0100d5263fa65f5b251a8c566/setup.py#L47">does not</a> explicitly declare a dependency on setuptools (which contains pkg_resources unlike the packaging lib). If that's correct, could you add the dependency please? If not, do you know what can be the issue here?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, it seems to me pkg_resources is only used to load CLI plugins <a href="https://github.com/pulp/pulp-cli/blob/cfa096774946c0d0100d5263fa65f5b251a8c566/pulpcore/cli/common/__init__.py#L163">here</a>. However, the document which this code mentions does not include any mentions of pkg_resources. Can it be that a better fix here is to update the plugin loading function?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Konstantin Khankin<br></div></div></div>