From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:16:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [3.12] GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools... X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0~33 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb4a8c273da848a8b6bd9670e77731f997cb1bbd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.12] GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (GH-109768) (#109815) GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (GH-109768) (cherry picked from commit 09a73d50f687b9b388b0386f400d9ba5a7c5f2a5) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index efb1b13c65c1..c2e7068ce096 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ Important deprecations, removals or restrictions: `the migration guide `_ for advice on its replacement. +* :gh:`95299`: Do not pre-install ``setuptools`` in virtual environments + created with :mod:`venv`. + This means that ``distutils``, ``setuptools``, ``pkg_resources``, + and ``easy_install`` will no longer available by default; to access these + run ``pip install setuptools`` in the :ref:`activated ` + virtual environment. + Improved Error Messages =======================