[BUG] 75.x.x cannot import config from distutils

[thehesiod]

setuptools version

75.0.0

Python version

python3.11

OS

Windows 11 WSL 2 Debian

Additional environment information

No response

Description

all the recent 75.x.x versions introduced an error which prevents pipenv locking from working on projects which were setting the DEFAULT_REPOSITORY:

from distutils import config
config.PyPIRCCommand.DEFAULT_REPOSITORY = 'internal'

with the error:

 "ImportError: cannot import name 'config' from 'distutils' (/home/amohr/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/__init__.py)\n"

I didn't see any release notes about 75.x stating this functionality had been removed. Was this functionality removed on purpose?

Expected behavior

no error

How to Reproduce

create package with above source in the setup.py

Output

 "ImportError: cannot import name 'config' from 'distutils' (/home/amohr/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/__init__.py)\n"

[thehesiod]

fyi we use this to prevent devs from accidentally uploading internal packages to the public pypi repo

[abravalheri]

I didn't see any release notes about 75.x stating this functionality had been removed. Was this functionality removed on purpose?

Hi @thehesiod , this is mentioned in the changelogs

v75.0.0
...
Deprecations and Removal
..

Merge with pypa/distutils@7283751. Removed the register and upload commands and the config module that backs them (pypa/distutils#294).

Because setuptools and distutils no longer handle uploads (as deprecated for a while), this module no longer provides any functionality for setuptools/distutils themselves and was removed.