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Use setuptools instead of distutils #106

Open mikepurvis opened 4 years ago

mikepurvis commented 4 years ago

Our build tool attempts to pass all python packages the egg_info command, which allows controlling where the egg_info gets generated in order to do an out-of-source build. This fails on some older distutils setups, eg:

Starting >>> python-npyscreen
--- stderr: python-npyscreen
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'egg_info'
---
Failed   <<< python-npyscreen [0.37s, exited with code 1]

This should be a safe, drop in replacement.

Some context: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25337706/setuptools-vs-distutils-why-is-distutils-still-a-thing