Remove dependency to setuptools and distutil

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

As see in #1030 and #1100 there is a hidden dependency to setuptools (and probably distutils too), we made it explicit in #1100 but the better thing to do would be to remove it entirely if possible.

[Keuricloud8866]

How can I learn as begineer

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Hi @Keuricloud8866, what do you want to learn ? In order to fix this ticket you should track the place where setuptools and distutils are used in pylint and find an alternative. For finding alternative we'll probably have to discuss how to do what we were doing before without setuptools.

[Keuricloud8866]

I am new and begineer in software IT world i just jumped in and want to be in so

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

You should probably check a tutorial about learning programming first. Another useful thing would be to know how to ask question:

• First read the error or documentation
• Second search Google or Stackoverflow
• Third ask for help in the right place

Did you search how to learn programming by yourself first and read a blog about it ? I think you jumped to three and this is not the right place to ask either. This is an issue about a particular issue in a particular software, you were very unlikely to get answers here. (in fact please do not ask other off-topic questions or I'll have to ban you).

[DanielNoord]

Do we still need to dependency on setuptools now? It was added in 40629ba.
Now that we have removed distutils I don't think it is necessary, right?

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Probably ? I'm trying to think of a way to test that. Maybe launching pylint test suite in a venv after we deinstalled setuptools ?