[RFC,v2,1/2] python3-installer: add installer module

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 3fceb6701b..1c605b0ecb 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@  RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-idna = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-importlib-metadata = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-iniconfig = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-iniparse = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-installer = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jinja2 = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jsonpointer = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jsonschema = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer/interpreter.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer/interpreter.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef10ef1b45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer/interpreter.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ 
+Let us override the hashbang directly (possibly upstreamable), and don't
+play games with hashbangs: for now assume that even hashbangs with spaces
+are simple (assume the spaces are only used to separate arguments) and
+we don't have long hashbangs.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
+
+diff --git a/src/installer/__main__.py b/src/installer/__main__.py
+index 3357ec5..d2fd8d2 100644
+--- a/src/installer/__main__.py
++++ b/src/installer/__main__.py
+@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ def _get_main_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+         type=str,
+         help="destination directory (prefix to prepend to each file)",
+     )
++    parser.add_argument(
++        "--interpreter",
++        "-i",
++        type=str,
++        default=sys.executable,
++        help=f"interpreter (defaults to {sys.executable})",
++    )
+     parser.add_argument(
+         "--compile-bytecode",
+         action="append",
+@@ -73,7 +80,7 @@ def _main(cli_args: Sequence[str], program: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+     with WheelFile.open(args.wheel) as source:
+         destination = SchemeDictionaryDestination(
+             scheme_dict=_get_scheme_dict(source.distribution),
+-            interpreter=sys.executable,
++            interpreter=args.interpreter,
+             script_kind=get_launcher_kind(),
+             bytecode_optimization_levels=bytecode_levels,
+             destdir=args.destdir,
+diff --git a/src/installer/scripts.py b/src/installer/scripts.py
+index 7e3c8fc..ba6ed5a 100644
+--- a/src/installer/scripts.py
++++ b/src/installer/scripts.py
+@@ -59,20 +59,7 @@ def _build_shebang(executable: str, forlauncher: bool) -> bytes:
+     https://bitbucket.org/pypa/distlib/src/58cd5c6/distlib/scripts.py#lines-124
+     """
+     executable_bytes = executable.encode("utf-8")
+-    if forlauncher:  # The launcher can just use the command as-is.
+-        return b"#!" + executable_bytes
+-    if _is_executable_simple(executable_bytes):
+-        return b"#!" + executable_bytes
+-
+-    # Shebang support for an executable with a space in it is under-specified
+-    # and platform-dependent, so we use a clever hack to generate a script to
+-    # run in ``/bin/sh`` that should work on all reasonably modern platforms.
+-    # Read the following message to understand how the hack works:
+-    # https://github.com/pradyunsg/installer/pull/4#issuecomment-623668717
+-
+-    quoted = shlex.quote(executable).encode("utf-8")
+-    # I don't understand a lick what this is trying to do.
+-    return b"#!/bin/sh\n'''exec' " + quoted + b' "$0" "$@"\n' + b"' '''"
++    return b"#!" + executable_bytes
+
+
+ class InvalidScript(ValueError):
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer_0.5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer_0.5.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..12d9fce249
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-installer_0.5.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ 
+SUMMARY = "Library and tool for installing Python wheels"
+DESCRIPTION = "A low-level library for installing a Python package from a wheel distribution."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://installer.readthedocs.io/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/pypa/installer/issues"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5038641aec7a77451e31da828ebfae00"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://interpreter.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f970995ec2bb815e2fdaf7977b26b2091e1e386f0f42eafd5ac811953dc5d445"
+
+inherit pypi flit_core
+
+DEPENDS:remove:class-native = "python3-installer-native"
+DEPENDS:append:class-native = " unzip-native"
+
+do_install:class-native () {
+    python_pep517_do_bootstrap_install
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"