Feature or enhancement
distutils is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed from Python 3.12. PyPA setuptools replaces distutils and provides shims for distutils package.
GH-90005 tracks effort to use configure.ac, Makefile, and makesetup to build almost all shared extensions without distutils. Only a handful of modules have not been ported yet
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Feature or enhancement
distutils is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed from Python 3.12. PyPA setuptools replaces distutils and provides shims for distutils package.
GH-90005 tracks effort to use
configure.ac,Makefile, andmakesetupto build almost all shared extensions without distutils. Only a handful of modules have not been ported yetLinked PRs