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.or
I will comment with more details on GH, but I think jraco's suggestion
makes a lot of sense. I would be willing to spend some time to merge
upstream (i.e. setuptools now :) ) some of our changes in numpy.distutils.
Assuming the numpy.distutils codebase has not changed much in the last 10
years, my