[WIP] gh-92584: Rename the distutils package to _distutils #92585
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Rename Lib/distutils/ directory to Lib/_distutils/.
Keep _distutils.tests.support for peg_generator tests
Replace distutils.spawn.find_executable() with shutil.which().
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test_tools and test_venv fail because of pip: pypa/pip#11103 |
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By default, Temporary workaround: |
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For now, this PR is a draft, and so I didn't write any documentation (no NEWS entry, no What's New in Python 3.12, etc.). |
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Related issue: #92584 |
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@erlend-aasland and I will have the last modules ported to |
See the issue #92584: peg_generator, c-analyzer tool and test_cppext still use distutils. I would prefer to not break them. |
I modified test_cppext to build the C++ extension with setuptools. So far, so good: it works on all buildbots. We can try a similar approach for test_peg_generator. Right now, test_peg_generator builds a library to make the test faster. I don't know how to port distutils code to setuptools. |
How is it going? Is this work tracked somewhere? For example, configure.ac mentions the array module, but setup.py still has code to build this extension. Is there a plan to remove the setup.py code, if the configure/Makefile code is enough? Or is there still a reason to keep the setup.py code? |
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I have created GH-93939 tl;dr every module that uses |
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It seems like most core devs don't want to keep distutils hidden in the stdlib, but want to directly remove it. So I close my PR. Remaining steps are tracked by other issues. |
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