On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 12:28:30 +0100 Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > > It will also help > promote the development of alternative build backends, which can now > be supported more easily thanks to PEP 517.
While I agree with the general suggestion of deprecating distutils as a publicly-visible module (in favour of encouraging users to rely on setuptools), it seems to me that the argument of facilitating the development of third-party build systems is what already encouraged the official policy of not adding features to distutils (more than 10 years ago, IIRC). AFAIK, we're still waiting for those other build systems to appear. But, who knows, this time it will be different. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SVXHWLJJA67H53VYYOMZFYUYLD7D2GAC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
