From 09a73d50f687b9b388b0386f400d9ba5a7c5f2a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:22:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (#109768) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 700daea75f12..33ddd539b3b1 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 ======================= -- 2.47.3