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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:05:29 +0200
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2015 at 14:55, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM, 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?
> >
> >
> > What do you hope getting from that ? distutils is in the stdlib, so cannot
> > change easily, and even if putting setuptools in the stdlib were possible,
> > you would now need to handle different versions of setuptools for different
> > versions of python.
> 
> It's more useful to go the other direction and vendor a modern version
> of distutils inside setuptools:

It seems it would only add a bit more craziness to the current
landscape. What happens to projects which have a need to monkeypatch
distutils? How does it interact with the vendored version? etc.

Regards

Antoine.