On 27.09.2017 11:37, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 27 September 2017 at 12:30, xoviat
wrote: In short, I think your proposal is a good one, but how can we allocate manpower?
(issue31595 on bugs.python.org)
So what do others think of this? My sense of things is that people are open to the idea, but there isn't a plan to make it happen.
As long as Jason is amenable to the idea on the setuptools side, and pip's trick of injecting setuptools into a process to change the behaviour of distutils imports continues to work, then this seems like a reasonable idea to me.
There will still be folks that want to patch distutils itself, but I don't see that as being substantially different from folks still patching the standard library Tcl/Tk bindings, even though there are a number of popular non-stdlib GUI toolkits.
In this case, we should deprecate distutils in python3.7 and remove it in 3.8.