[Distutils] Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Paul Moore]

On 21 October 2015 at 12:52, Thomas Güttler
<guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> ok, at the moment setuptools uses distutils.
>
> Why not melt them together into **one** underwear-pants-module?

(1) because there's no-one with anything like the time or energy to do
such a thing
(2) because doing so would almost certainly break vast numbers of
existing setup.py scripts

Paul