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authorPatrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>2020-09-03 09:45:36 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-09-03 09:45:36 -0400
commit2aa127c20701320c5627b82d9fc71e84e02fd114 (patch)
tree7317264364d0072ef0f205be338c7edae8c835cd
parentFix typing for SyncHandler (#8237) (diff)
downloadsynapse-2aa127c20701320c5627b82d9fc71e84e02fd114.tar.xz
Revert pinning of setuptools (#8239)
-rw-r--r--INSTALL.md2
-rw-r--r--changelog.d/8212.bugfix1
-rw-r--r--changelog.d/8239.misc1
-rw-r--r--synapse/python_dependencies.py4
4 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index bdb7769fe9..22f7b7c029 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ mkdir -p ~/synapse
 virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env
 source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
 pip install --upgrade pip
-pip install --upgrade setuptools!=50.0  # setuptools==50.0 fails on some older Python versions
+pip install --upgrade setuptools
 pip install matrix-synapse
 ```
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/8212.bugfix b/changelog.d/8212.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f8c0aed92..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8212.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Do not install setuptools 50.0. It can lead to a broken configuration on some older Python versions.
diff --git a/changelog.d/8239.misc b/changelog.d/8239.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..88a3603e61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/8239.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Revert pinning of setuptools.
diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index d666f22674..2d995ec456 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     "Jinja2>=2.9",
     "bleach>=1.4.3",
     "typing-extensions>=3.7.4",
-    # setuptools is required by a variety of dependencies, unfortunately version
-    # 50.0 is incompatible with older Python versions, see
-    # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2352
-    "setuptools!=50.0",
 ]
 
 CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = {