May 10, 2022
8:24 p.m.
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:16 PM Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org> wrote:
I agree. The internal tools that use it are all in our Tools directory, so we can move distutils there and explicitly add an import path to locate it. No need to keep it in the stdlib (Lib/) at all.
Migrating to Makefile builds is probably better long-term, but not as important as moving distutils out from the stdlib so that setuptools can rely on their copy being the "main" one.
With my current PR, Lib/_distutils/ is not installed by "make install". Moving it to Tools/ would also work. Victor -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.