[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: This is no longer relevant now that distutils is deprecated. -- stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Irit Katriel added the comment: Is this still relevant now that distutils is deprecated? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Éric Araujo added the comment: Note that the distutils feature freeze has been lifted, so in 3.5 sysconfig could be reused by distutils.sysconfig, but the existing functionality (different API + ability to override with env vars) must be preserved. -- nosy: +eric.araujo __

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I don't agree. Distutils still uses distutils.sysconfig for configuration information and setup.py wants to adjust that configuration, it should therefore use distutils.sysconfig instead of the global one. That said, it would be better to change distutils to

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: distutils.sysconfig module is theoretically deprecated in favor of sysconfig module. It is better to fix sysconfig module than to switch back to distutils.sysconfig module. -- nosy: +Arfrever __

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: So much for obviously correct changes... 1) fix typo in import statement (from sysconfig import import ...) 2) setup.py uses sysconfig.get_path and that's not present in distutils.sysconfig. (Sigh..., why are there two modules with almost but not entirely eq

[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

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[issue18255] CPython setup.py problems

New submission from Ronald Oussoren: While working on a fix for #18211 I noticed two problems with the setup.py that's used to build the stdlib extensions. 1) setup.py uses sysconfig instead of distutils.sysconfig. The sematics of the two modules a slighty different. 2) The block of code star