Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig

On 18.01.22 16:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Also, considering the failure on prairiedog, I do see now on
>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/sysconfig.html> that the sysconfig
>> module is "New in version 3.2". I had interpreted the fact that it
>> exists in version 2.7 that that includes all higher versions, but
>> obviously there were multiple branches involved, so that was a mistaken
>> assumption.
>
> Hm. I installed 3.1 because we claim support for that. I don't mind
> updating to 3.2 (as long as we adjust the docs to match), but it seems
> kinda moot unless you figure out a solution for the include-path
> issue. I see that platforms as recent as Debian 10 are failing,
> so I don't think we can dismiss that as not needing fixing.

I have reverted this for now.

I don't have a clear idea how to fix this in the long run. We would
perhaps need to determine at which points the various platforms had
fixed this issue in their Python installations and select between the
old and the new approach based on that. Seems messy.