Cull more oudated distutils information

[ncoghlan]

BPO	36797
Nosy	@jaraco, @ncoghlan, @matrixise, @pganssle, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-36797: Prune more legacy distutils documentation #13092 bpo-36797: Reduce levels of indirection in outdated distutils docs #13462 [3.7] bpo-36797: Reduce levels of indirection in outdated distutils docs (GH-13462) #13524 bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in Doc/distutils/apiref #15700 [3.8] bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in Doc/distutils/apiref (GH-15700) #15704

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ncoghlan'
closed_at = <Date 2019-05-21.13:55:25.354>
created_at = <Date 2019-05-04.21:05:47.821>
labels = ['type-feature']
title = 'Cull more oudated distutils information'
updated_at = <Date 2019-09-09.14:52:37.282>
user = 'https://github.com/ncoghlan'

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issue_num = 36797
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue36797'
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[ncoghlan]

Prompted by bpo-33071, I'm going to do a pass through the legacy distutils documentation deleting outdated information that is better maintained elsewhere.

[ncoghlan]

New changeset dae1229 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'master':
bpo-36797: Prune more legacy distutils documentation (GH-13092)
dae1229

[ncoghlan]

While I do have a second PR open with some additional smaller cleanups, the first PR removed the outdated information that seemed most problematic.

[ncoghlan]

New changeset e788057 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'master':
bpo-36797: Reduce levels of indirection in outdated distutils docs (bpo-13462)
e788057

[miss-islington]

New changeset a3488e5 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-36797: Reduce levels of indirection in outdated distutils docs (GH-13462)
a3488e5

[miss-islington]

New changeset 2c2b561 by Miss Islington (bot) (Miro Hrončok) in branch 'master':
bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in Doc/distutils/apiref (GH-15700)
2c2b561

[matrixise]

New changeset cabcbbe by Stéphane Wirtel (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8':
bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in Doc/distutils/apiref (GH-15700) (GH-15704)
cabcbbe