[issue41282] Deprecate and remove distutils

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

+1

I would like to propose three changes:

1) rename distutils, either _distutils or _buildutils sounds good to me
2) make distutils a build-only dependency and no longer install it with make install and other install targets
3) start to build extensions from Makefile or Modules/Setup

For (3) we have to move some checks into autoconf and maybe extend Modules/Setup to support conditional compilation.

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nosy: +christian.heimes

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