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2 weeks ago Heads up: https://github.com/pypa/distutils/pull/278 merged.
What still remains is:
- setuptools needs to "vendor" the change made to distutils
- a new version of setuptools needs to be released
- rules_python needs to upgrade to a version of setuptools that include the change
then, I believe it may be okay to remove the workaround.
However, it may be best to keep the workaround (and perhaps even expand it to behave similarly on other platforms). See: https://github.com/pypa/distutils/pull/278#issuecomment-2305056919 https://github.com/pypa/distutils/pull/278#issuecomment-2310967837 https://github.com/pypa/distutils/pull/278#issuecomment-2311193875
Based on https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/pull/1067/#issuecomment-2282845919
Once the issue is fixed upstream, we can remove our workaround.