Distutils is deprecated and will be remove in python 3.12

[RomainBrault]

Distutils is used in many places.

Is there any hope that Babel will work with python 3.12?

See:

• https://docs.python.org/fr/3/library/distutils.html
• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/

[akx]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Yes, Babel will likely work with Python 3.12 – we'll likely excise the distutils compatibility stuff by then.

That said, I wonder if anyone really uses the distutils command support...
Note to self: https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/extension.html

[RosanneZe]

Is this the same issue that causes the SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning when using the distutils/setuptools integration? I looked into using the cli instead of the integration, but that doesn't seem to pick up the configuration options I now have in a setup.cfg file ([extract_messages], [init_catalog] etc).

[akx]

@RosanneZe What warning is that in particular?

[RosanneZe]

@akx This warning:
.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py:27: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setuptools.installer is deprecated. Requirements should be satisfied by a PEP 517 installer.

(eta: this is when running python3 setup.py compile_catalog -l en)

[akx]

@RosanneZe That seems like an unrelated issue. Can you maybe open a new issue about it with a better repro case?

[akx]

With #835, Setuptools is used as the first preference, and distutils is the fallback.

A future version of Babel will likely drop the fallbacks.

Thanks for the heads-up, @RomainBrault!