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" <n...@python.org> wrote: > On Sep 27, 2017, at 13:31, Steve Dower <steve.do...@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 > n...@python.org -- [] > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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