> I do note that using `import distutils` rather than the vendored copy _does_ work. The point of PR #1700 was to move off `distutils` as it is being deprecated, as @henryiii mentioned. There I was already trying to do the guard that @henryiii suggests https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/8e1e528232d8ead08468eefcbf991737eb5751da/bindings/python/setup.py.in#L3-L19 though as to > Where does the `import setuptools` fail, though? this was attempted in PR #1585, but > This PR was meant to also change: > > * `distutils.setup` -> `setuptools.setup` > * `distutils.sysconfig` -> CPython's `sysconfig` > > but it seems that these are still required given the current state of the build and will need to be revised in a later PR. I don't remember where exactly this failed, so let me post this and rerun the Docker build that is described there. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1830#issuecomment-1332674267 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <[log in to unmask]> ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1