Hi all, Preliminary conclusion: let's pin all packages to setuptools < 50.0 and wait for 6-9 months till the dust settles. Things may still change; the reception of PEP 632 [1] hasn't been a "great idea, let's just rip it out without a plan" one so far.
Cheers, Ralf [1] https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-632-deprecate-distutils-module/5134 On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:33 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent some time looking at the fallout of the setuptools 50.0 release. > There's quite a few small issues, those can/should all be worked around by > pinning setuptools to a lower version. > > The root cause and main longer-term issue is that numpy.distutils extends > and monkeypatches distutils, which mostly was fine because distutils moved > super slowly and had a decent QA process. Now with setuptools, any patch > goes into master and gets released to the whole wide world without any > testing. The summary of that and how to deal with it I posted on > https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2372 for discussion. > > Cheers, > Ralf > >
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