Re: [PATCH] py-smbus/setup.py: use setuptools instead of distutils

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Ross,

On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:49:10 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> As per [1], distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be removed
> entirely in Python 3.12.
> 
> As setuptools is essentially an enhanced version of distutils, it's
> trivial to port to that.
> 
> [1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
> ---
>  py-smbus/setup.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/py-smbus/setup.py b/py-smbus/setup.py
> index 28a4500..26db33a 100644
> --- a/py-smbus/setup.py
> +++ b/py-smbus/setup.py
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  #!/usr/bin/env python
>  
> -from distutils.core import setup, Extension
> +from setuptools import setup, Extension
>  
>  setup(	name="smbus",
>  	version="1.1",

Is setuptools available in python 2.7? For now, py-smbus can be built
for either python2 or python3, and I would like to maintain that
possibility.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support