setup: fall back to setuptools setup if distutils isn't available stable
authorMads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:09:17 +0200
branchstable
changeset 50733 b1ac55606eb7
parent 50732 b3a5af04da35
child 50734 d5cd1fd690f3
setup: fall back to setuptools setup if distutils isn't available The setuptools comments around this seems slightly outdated. Setuptools is improving and distutils is being deprecated, so it should perhaps be the default. But at least, it is a fair fallback.
setup.py
--- a/setup.py	Thu Mar 23 16:45:12 2023 +0100
+++ b/setup.py	Tue Jun 27 12:09:17 2023 +0200
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@
 if issetuptools:
     from setuptools import setup
 else:
-    from distutils.core import setup
+    try:
+        from distutils.core import setup
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        from setuptools import setup
 from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
 from distutils.core import Command, Extension
 from distutils.dist import Distribution