No support for Python 3.12

[haampie]

I see some claims that pythran supports Python 3.12, but it uses distutils so it doesn't:

pythran/pythran/run.py

Line 13 in b37f584

from distutils.errors import CompileError

causing

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

when running pythran --version.

This happens for example in scipy during meson configure, resulting in build failure.

Code changes are required to continue to use distutils, you cannot rely on import distutils to work even if you add a dummy dependency on setuptools. See cython/cython#5754 (comment) for why not.

[serge-sans-paille]

Thanks for the report. I believe #2205 fixes most of the issues (?)

[haampie]

Fixes it 👍

[serge-sans-paille]

Fixed by #2205

[haampie]

Hi @serge-sans-paille, would it make sense to backport this in a patch release? Does pythran have patch releases?

[serge-sans-paille]

no patch release, but I plan a release in the forthcoming weeks, I need to have a look at #2203 first though.