On 27.09.2017 11:37, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 12:30, xoviat <xov...@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. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig