[Distutils] Extracting distutils into setuptools

[Matthias Klose]

On 27.09.2017 11:37, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 27 September 2017 at 12:30, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In short, I think your proposal is a good one, but how can we allocate
>>> manpower?
>>
>> (issue31595 on bugs.python.org)
>>
>> So what do others think of this? My sense of things is that people are open
>> to the idea, but there isn't a plan to make it happen.
> 
> As long as Jason is amenable to the idea on the setuptools side, and
> pip's trick of injecting setuptools into a process to change the
> behaviour of distutils imports continues to work, then this seems like
> a reasonable idea to me.
> 
> There will still be folks that want to patch distutils itself, but I
> don't see that as being substantially different from folks still
> patching the standard library Tcl/Tk bindings, even though there are a
> number of popular non-stdlib GUI toolkits.

In this case, we should deprecate distutils in python3.7 and remove it in 3.8.