Description
Summary
https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/setupscript.html comes up high in a search, looks like authoritative official guidance on the best way to configure a python project, and it tells people to use setup.py
This page says it will go away when all of the information is available in setuptools documentation:
Note This document is being retained solely until the setuptools documentation at https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html independently covers all of the relevant information currently included here.
Additional Information
Not all the documentation should be retained in the setuptools docs.
To break the work up, here are the chapters in distutils docs, and roughly equivalent page in setuptools, if one exists.
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1. An Introduction to Distutils](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/introduction.html)
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2. Writing the Setup Script](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/setupscript.html)
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3. Writing the Setup Configuration File](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/configfile.html)
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html -
4. Creating a Source Distribution](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/sourcedist.html)
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/miscellaneous.html -
5 Creating Built Distributions](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html)
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6. Distutils Examples](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/examples.html)
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/quickstart.html? -
7. Extending Distutils](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/extending.html)
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/extension.html -
8. Command Reference](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/commandref.html)
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9 API Reference](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/apiref.html)
Actually deciding the docs are ready for deletion has to be done by that team, this will be tracked at python/cpython#94249
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