Hi distutils-sig Just wanted to let you know that I've proposed a core CPython PEP to formally deprecate and remove the standard library distutils module. Text and discussion at https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-632-deprecate-distutils-module/5134 The PEP has gone to python-dev formally because it only deals with the standard library module. setuptools, pip, and recent package work feature in the motivation, but are not bound to follow anything in this PEP. Cheers, Steve