[d1l]

Isn't setuptools deprecated now too or on the chopping block?

[eesmith]

I believe setuptools is more frowned upon - in favor of PEP 517/PEP 518 tools - than deprecated.

Last I checked, there was no good way to package hand-written Python/C extensions than setuptools, but that was a couple of years ago.

In any case, there's a large installed-based of setuptools-based projects making it hard to get rid of.