Distutils Will Be Gone From The Standard Library In Python 3.12

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Thomas Passin

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Jun 17, 2023, 3:51:52 PM6/17/23

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I don't know if Leo uses distutils in any way, but it won't be in the standard library any more. It has been absorbed into setuptools, so its features aren't really gone, but how to use them will change.

Edward K. Ream

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Jun 17, 2023, 5:17:50 PM6/17/23

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On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 2:51 PM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know if Leo uses distutils in any way, but it won't be in the standard library any more. It has been absorbed into setuptools, so its features aren't really gone, but how to use them will change.

Thanks for the update. Afaik, Leo does not use distutils. setup.py uses setuptools.