[Distutils] Extracting distutils into setuptools

[Donald Stufft]

> On Sep 29, 2017, at 11:21 PM, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't think writing shims for distutils is as easy as you make it sound. In fact, I'd venture to say that it's an intractable problem because of the difficulty of knowing the number of distutils hacks that are in the wild.
> 


For the compiler code? It’s probably pretty tractable, which is I think the main thing that needs maintenance.