deploy: aa54c34cae

python/setup.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+QEMU tooling installer script
+Copyright (c) 2020-2021 John Snow for Red Hat, Inc.
+"""
+
+import setuptools
+from setuptools.command import bdist_egg
+import sys
+import pkg_resources
+
+
+class bdist_egg_guard(bdist_egg.bdist_egg):
+    """
+    Protect against bdist_egg from being executed
+
+    This prevents calling 'setup.py install' directly, as the 'install'
+    CLI option will invoke the deprecated bdist_egg hook. "pip install"
+    calls the more modern bdist_wheel hook, which is what we want.
+    """
+    def run(self):
+        sys.exit(
+            'Installation directly via setup.py is not supported.\n'
+            'Please use `pip install .` instead.'
+        )
+
+
+def main():
+    """
+    QEMU tooling installer
+    """
+
+    # https://medium.com/@daveshawley/safely-using-setup-cfg-for-metadata-1babbe54c108
+    pkg_resources.require('setuptools>=39.2')
+
+    setuptools.setup(cmdclass={'bdist_egg': bdist_egg_guard})
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()