From fdf2fa14014110d6c4fb9e62fbdbb299bca0d795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Reiter Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:16:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] news: add something re the setuptools changes --- web/news.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/web/news.md b/web/news.md index 0240a060..678e29ff 100644 --- a/web/news.md +++ b/web/news.md @@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ summary: Important events happening. This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :) +### 2024-07-28 - MSYS2 support in setuptools v70.0.2 + +Setuptools v70.0.2 now supports mingw Python and MSYS2 natively. This eliminates +the need for SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib when building C extensions, +enabling "pip install" to just work for most packages without extra steps. + +With the stdlib distutils now no longer being required to build packages we can +continue our work to update to Python 3.12. + ### 2024-07-08 - File conflicts when updating python Due to the recent Python 3.12 update missing .pyc files, you might see file