I started porting my project [1] to Python 3.7 and came across bpo-29218: "The unused distutils install_misc command has been removed." [2]
Historically, the distutils package was very conservative about changes because many 3rd party packages extended it in ways unforeseen by the Python core developers. As far as I can tell, this removal was done without a deprecation period or any public discussion. The comment above the command class [3] was there for 18 years and promised to "keep it around for the time being." Why did it suddenly become necessary to remove it in 3.7? Is shedding 20 lines of code really worth the risk of breaking user code? [1]: https://github.com/KxSystems/pyq [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#api-and-feature-removals [3]: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/aae45f93e7b7708deb1ce9d69b58fa029106613d
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