Then, as Victor said, it will have to be bundled into Python's codebase.
On 05.09.2020 11:06, Emily Bowman wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 12:37 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org
<mailto:python-dev@python.org>> wrote:
As I wrote in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25337706/setuptools-vs-distutils-why-is-distutils-still-a-thing/40176290#40176290,
distutils has a responsibility that setuptools as a 3rd-party entity cannot
fulfill -- to set the core standards for addon modules
structure
and interface and be guaranteed to be present and compatible with the
Python distribution that it comes with.
If you are going to remove distutils, something else will need to fulfill
these goals.
Obviously, the "something else" is setuptools, which has filled that niche for well over a decade now, and shows no signs of going away
anytime soon. Maybe someday there might be a PEP 517 challenger, but for now, setuptools isn't going anywhere even if distutils goes away.
--
Regards,
Ivan
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