Support for customising build.sub_commands directly from distutils has been deprecated and is about to be removed from setuptools

[abravalheri]

The following feature in setuptools has been deprecated for almost 2 years and is about to be removed:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/1ed759173983656734c3606e9c97a348895e5e0c/setuptools/command/build.py#L13-L27

It might be a good idea to import build directly from setuptools for the following code:

iiswsgi/iiswsgi/build_msdeploy.py

Line 159 in f6d1dc6

build.build.sub_commands.append(('build_msdeploy', has_msdeploy_manifest))

(maybe other places)
(build is available directly from setuptools, starting on version v62.4.0)

[rpatterson]

It might be a good idea to import build directly from setuptools for the following code:

Thanks for the detailed report and thanks especially for including a potential fix, @abravalheri!

This project has been inactive for over a decade. AFAIK, I was the only user ever. I'm not likely to fix this or any other issues. Are you or anyone you know using it? If yes, do you know anyone who wants to take over maintenance? If no, how did you find this project in order to report this issue? Are you a bot? ;-)

[abravalheri]

Hi @rpatterson. Thanks for the response. I am not using the project. I am working on the updates for setuptools, and I used Github search to try to find codebases that would potentially be broken after the removal.

Please feel free too close the issue if you think is not relevant.

[rpatterson]

Please feel free too close the issue if you think is not relevant.

Oh, it's relevant. This will remain open as a scarlet letter of not being maintained. ;-)

But seriously, thanks much for your work on behalf of a whole community of developer-users. I value the diligence, @abravalheri.