On 2024-06-29 19:42:13 +0200 (+0200), Carsten Schoenert wrote: [...] > We could manage a migration to another Python build system > "somehow", but then I think the time until the freeze is to short > to fix all these packages if we wanted to drop distutils, beside > the other work that is needed to be done until the hard freeze. What's the reasoning for a hard push to stop using distutils when it's shipped as part of python3-setuptools these days? I've seen no indication from the SetupTools developers that they intend to stop maintaining it any time soon. Sure it was removed from the CPython stdlib, but that's simply because CPython itself no longer relies on it for building. The idea was that it would be better maintained outside of the stdlib as part of an independent packaging library. -- Jeremy Stanley
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