[Distutils] Extracting distutils into setuptools

[xoviat]

That's actually an interesting idea though: for Python 3.7 distutils ->
_distutils (and then setuptools is required for building). For/against?

2017-09-27 14:46 GMT-05:00 xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com>:

> No. Setuptools is what projects without a build_backend in pyproject.toml
> get. Not distutils. We should make it clear now that the distutils
> namespace belongs to setuptools except for when building cpython.
>
> On Sep 27, 2017 2:33 PM, "Ned Deily" <nad at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 27, 2017, at 13:31, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
>> > setuptools is totally welcome in my book to simply copy the compiler
>> infrastructure we already have from core and never look back. It really
>> does need to be maintained separately from CPython, especially on Windows
>> where we continue to get innovation in the targeted tools. I know it's a
>> big ask, and it's one that I can't personally commit real time to (though I
>> obviously will as much as possible), but I do think it is necessary for our
>> ecosystem to not be tied to CPython release cycles.
>>
>> Whatever is done, keep in mind that currently distutils is required to
>> build Python itself, e.g. the standard library.  And that at least one
>> important project, numpy, already subclasses distutils.
>>
>> --
>>   Ned Deily
>>   nad at python.org -- []
>>
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