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Document distutil vs setuptools issues or fix usage #22765
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Following on to #22756
setuptools 60 re-enabled their local copy of distutils: pypa/setuptools#2896
This apparently fails to set up paths that can find msbuild, so switch back the standard library distutils.
We had to set an additional ENV on azure to un-break CI. Do we need to document this change in the windows source install instructions as well? Or is it better to change how we are using setuptools/distutils?
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QuLogic commented on Jan 25, 2023
cibuildwheel is on setuptools 66 and we don't set the env there; I'll try reverting that PR to see if we can drop it.