On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:16 PM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > I agree. The internal tools that use it are all in our Tools directory, > so we can move distutils there and explicitly add an import path to > locate it. No need to keep it in the stdlib (Lib/) at all. > > Migrating to Makefile builds is probably better long-term, but not as > important as moving distutils out from the stdlib so that setuptools can > rely on their copy being the "main" one.
With my current PR, Lib/_distutils/ is not installed by "make install". Moving it to Tools/ would also work. Victor -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ 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/T43OZ4LWUT7QBENWPKIA3LFT52GWJV3Q/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
