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Build shared extensions without distutils #93939
Description
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
- _curses
- _curses_panel
- _ctypes, see gh-90005: Port _ctypes to PY_STDLIB_MOD #32229
- _dbm
- readline
Activity
20 remaining items
gh-93939: Build C extensions without setup.py (GH-94474)
pythongh-93939: Use new MODULE_name_STATE in wasm_assets script
pythongh-93939: Use new MODULE_name_STATE in wasm_assets script (pyth…
gh-93939: Use new MODULE_name_STATE in wasm_assets script (GH-95035)
gh-93939: Use new MODULE_name_STATE in wasm_assets script (GH-95035)
gh-92584: Remove references to removed _bootsubprocess (#99062)
erlend-aasland commented on Feb 8, 2023
AFAICS, there is no more work to be done here.