Re: installation strategy

> On 2023-08-29, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
>> Latest docutils from Subversion repository (vis svn update).
>> Installed with
>> 	python312 setup.py install
>> Subsequent message from pip:
>> 	DEPRECATION: Loading egg at c:\program files\python312\lib\site-packages\docutils-0.21b0.dev0-py3.12.egg is deprecated. pip 23.3 will enforce this behaviour
>> change. A possible replacement is to use pip for package installation.
> 

On 8/29/2023 5:01 PM, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
> Where did you get the egg from?


You?  :-)
It is created when I run
	python312 setup.py install
(As I have done for many years.)



> On 2023-08-29, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
>> I searched but did not find an answer to the question:
>> what does this mean, and how to address it?

On 8/29/2023 5:01 PM, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
> Latest tips at
> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/README.html#installation

Sure, but to install the current code on Subversion,
I cannot use pip.  Right??

I suspect (??) this serves as an alert to the
docutils project that it must change how it
uses setuptools before pip 23.3 is released.

Thanks,
Alan