[issue12934] pysetup doesn’t work for the docutils project

Éric Araujo added the comment: This is a problem on my side, not in distutils2. My pysetupX.Y scripts are just shell one-liners of this form: PYTHONPATH=~/path/to/d2 pythonX.Y -m distutils2.run "$@" Because of sys.path initialization, d2 tried to import docutils from the working directory

[issue12934] pysetup doesn’t work for the docutils project

Éric Araujo added the comment: Due to the same reason, it’s also not possible to run “pysetup3.1 metadata” in the distutils2 repo, or “pysetup2.4 metadata” in the distutils2-python3 repo. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue12934] pysetup doesn’t work for the docutils project

New submission from Éric Araujo : I tried to run “pysetup metadata” in a docutils source directory but the program failed, because packaging tries to import docutils and it picks up the 2.x version in the local directory. The import chain is: pysetup → packaging.run → packaging.metadata → docu