New submission from Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com>:
Setuptools has adopted distutils as outlined in [pypa/packaging-problems#127](https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/127). Although there are some straggling issues, the current release of Setuptools fully obviates distutils if a certain environment variable is set. Soon, that behavior will be default. Additionally, the distutils codebase remains maintained at [pypa/distutils](https://github.com/pypa/distutils) in a form suitable for releasing as a third-party package, should the need arise (i.e. pip install distutils). The plan now is to freeze, deprecate, and in Python N + 0.1, remove distutils. Already, Setuptools is identifying emergent bugs and other defects in distutils and providing fixes for them (issue41207, [pypa/setuptools#2212](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2212)). Keeping these changes in sync across three repos and different supported versions is tedious, so I'd like to move forward with the deprecation process as soon as possible. ---------- components: Distutils messages: 373548 nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, jaraco priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Deprecate and remove distutils versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41282> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
