Distutils / setup.py deprecation

[baldurmen]

Hello,

This project uses the Python distutils module in setup.py.

In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils has been formally marked as deprecated. Code that imports distutils will no longer work from Python 3.12.

As such, it's very likely Debian (I'm the current maintainer for pius) won't be able to build this package when the 3.12 transition happens (sometime in late 2023 probably?).

It would probably be a good idea to migrate away from setup.py to a PEP517-compatible build system, using pyproject.toml. Here's the relevant documentation if you want to go with setuptools (there are a lot of other good options, I'm myself partial to flit...)

• https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_config.html
• https://peps.python.org/pep-0517

You can see an example of a migration to pyproject.toml with setuptools that I did here: jaseg/python-mpv#241