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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 2a371eb..bd95bfe 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -731,6 +731,24 @@ Removed project can be installed: it still provides ``distutils``. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`92584`.) +* Remove the bundled setuptools wheel from :mod:`ensurepip`, + and stop installing setuptools in environments created by :mod:`venv`. + + ``pip (>= 22.1)`` does not require setuptools to be installed in the + environment. ``setuptools``-based (and ``distutils``-based) packages + can still be used with ``pip install``, since pip will provide + ``setuptools`` in the build environment it uses for building a + package. + + ``easy_install``, ``pkg_resources``, ``setuptools`` and ``distutils`` + are no longer provided by default in environments created with + ``venv`` or bootstrapped with ``ensurepip``, since they are part of + the ``setuptools`` package. For projects relying on these at runtime, + the ``setuptools`` project should be declared as a dependency and + installed separately (typically, using pip). + + (Contributed by Pradyun Gedam in :gh:`95299`.) + * Removed many old deprecated :mod:`unittest` features: - A number of :class:`~unittest.TestCase` method aliases: |