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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:07:10 +0100
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

(3) because distutils is part of the standard library and setuptools is
most likely unwelcome there :-)

Regards

Antoine.