[INSTRM-1657] Fix pfsinstall, etc. in the modern world.

Relates — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:41:26 +0000

With python 3.9, something changed with distutils/setuptools which breaks installation of even the simplest MHS package. Specifically, after pfsinstall ics_xcuActor:2.0.5, we get an empty egg. Bad enough that we get any egg. See below.

For pure-python packages, installing with an older conda is a workaround.

cloomis@tron:ics_xcuActor (master *=)$ ls -lR /software/mhs/products/Linux64/ics_xcuActor/2.0.5
/software/mhs/products/Linux64/ics_xcuActor/2.0.5:
total 3
drwxrwsr-x 3 cloomis pfs  3 Jun 29 17:21 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cloomis pfs 10 Jun 29 17:21 python -> lib/python
drwxrwsr-x 2 cloomis pfs  3 Jun 29 17:21 ups

/software/mhs/products/Linux64/ics_xcuActor/2.0.5/lib:
total 9
drwxrwsr-x 2 cloomis pfs 5 Jun 29 17:21 python

/software/mhs/products/Linux64/ics_xcuActor/2.0.5/lib/python:
total 159
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cloomis pfs     27 Jun 29 17:21 easy-install.pth
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cloomis pfs     27 Jun 29 17:21 easy-install.pth~
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cloomis pfs 155446 Jun 29 17:21 xcuActor-0.0.0-py3.9.egg

/software/mhs/products/Linux64/ics_xcuActor/2.0.5/ups:
total 5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cloomis pfs 562 Jun 29 17:21 ics_xcuActor.table

PFS-JIRA

[INSTRM-1657] Fix pfsinstall, etc. in the modern world.