Hi @henryiii, thanks for the comments. I tried to use
```python
try:
import setuptools
except ImportError:
pass
from distutils.core import setup, Extension
from distutils import sysconfig
```
but unfortunately this still fails in some cases. The idea is to use `import setuptools` to override `distutils` when that's available. I also tried a variant in which I do `from setuptools import setup, Extension` then just `import sysconfig`, but that also didn't work everywhere. Tomorrow I will try to debug the failures and find a solution, but in the longer term, I think I will just take some time to write new python packaging code following [PEP 517](https://peps.python.org/pep-0517/) and [PEP 632](https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/), dropping usage of deprecated stuff altogether.
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