On 9/4/20 1:28 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > Hi all. > > setuptools has recently adopted the entire codebase of the distutils module, > so > that they will be able to make improvements directly without having to rely on > patching the standard library. As a result, we can now move forward with > official deprecation (in 3.10) and removal (in 3.12) (noting that the > distutils > docs already recommend switching to setuptools).
it would be nice to already announce that with the 3.9 release. At the 2018 Language summit, I had a lightning talk to report about the experience splitting out distutils into a separate binary package, showing some unexpected usages: Unexpected / Creative usages: - distutils.version Used "everywhere" ... - distutils.spawn: find_executable Replace with shutil.which - distutils.util: strtobool Rewrite, no equivalent in the stdlib? - distutils.sysconfig: Mostly replaced by sysconfig It really would be nice to have recommended replacements, especially for the version stuff (packaging?) Matthias _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5L45GDUIALRJP6BJ5H6B3V4LFJJ2P3UU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/