Re: [PATCH v2] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:04, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that
> the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while
> and now likely got removed in recent Python versions.

This doesn't seem to be sufficient to fix the macos CI:
something in glib seems to still be using it.

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/6313212803

[281/6553] Generating ui/dbus-display gdbus-codegen with a custom command
FAILED: ui/dbus-display1.h ui/dbus-display1.c
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/bin/gdbus-codegen
ui/dbus-display1.xml --glib-min-required 2.64 --output-directory
/private/var/folders/xc/tpssff9959345bnqq4c6tlww0000gn/T/cirrus-ci-build/build/ui
--interface-prefix org.qemu. --c-namespace QemuDBus --generate-c-code
dbus-display1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/bin/gdbus-codegen", line 53, in <module>
from codegen import codegen_main
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/share/glib-2.0/codegen/codegen_main.py",
line 29, in <module>
from . import dbustypes
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/share/glib-2.0/codegen/dbustypes.py",
line 22, in <module>
from . import utils
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/share/glib-2.0/codegen/utils.py",
line 22, in <module>
import distutils.version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'


thanks
-- PMM