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?)
-Brett