Using setuptools to replace distutils

[tklltkioc]

os:centos 7.9 python:3.7.4

pip list:
pip        20.2.2
setuptools 40.4.3
wheel      0.35.1

When i run command python setup.py bdist_wheel,i get error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel' and after modify setup.py one line, wheel is build success. As follows:

#from distutils.core import setup                                                                                                                                                                      
from setuptools import setup                                                                                                                                                                         
from distutils.core import Extension                                                                                                                                                                  
from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext

so have you ever considered using setuptools to replace distutils.In particular, setuptools is an enhanced alternative to distutils.

[GrahamDumpleton]

Once upon a time you could not rely on setuptools being present and trying to hardwire a dependency on specific versions could cause lots of problems.

From what I remember, if you install the wheel package you should then be able to do bdist_wheel even when distutils is used.

Try that for now and when next working on wrapt will look into how safe it is now to depend on setuptools explicitly.

[tklltkioc]

ok. Thank you for your reply

[henryiii]

This is considered very safe now, in fact pip injects setuptools for you, using distutils can generate a warning, and there’s even a PEP to remove distutils. Ideally, you could add a pyproject.toml that includes the setuptools requirement.

Note that this is the third highest library on https://pythonwheels.com/ without wheels available. :(

[GrahamDumpleton]

Switch to setuptools is done in 1.13.0 and PyPi from that version will also host wheels.