[issue24124] Two versions of instructions for installing Python modules

Irit Katriel added the comment: The legacy doc has this message in it now, so I think we can close this issue and trust Steve to deal with it along with the rest of distutils. The entire ``distutils`` package has been deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.12. This documentation is

[issue24124] Two versions of instructions for installing Python modules

Nick Coghlan added the comment: As far as I'm aware, it's only confusing if you're poking around in the source tree, rather than using the built docs at docs.python.org (where the link to the legacy docs is now hidden away inside the distutils module docs). The legacy docs remain in place to p

[issue24124] Two versions of instructions for installing Python modules

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[issue24124] Two versions of instructions for installing Python modules

New submission from Skip Montanaro: I was hunting around the current website for notes on installing Python. Couldn't find any (BTW), so I looked in the Python source. Imagine my surprise to find two apparently overlapping files describing how to build Python modules: ./Doc/install/index.rst .