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RFE: switch from distutils setuptools

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Looks like fonttools still uses distutils instead setuptools. Because of that it is not possible to generate documentation like below:

+ /usr/bin/python3 setup.py build_sphinx -b man --build-dir build/sphinx
running build_sphinx

Application error:
config directory doesn't contain a conf.py file (.)

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:13 (6 by maintainers)

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anthrotypecommented, Jul 21, 2021

@kloczek please have a look at this https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/main/Doc for instructions on how to build the docs, and let us know if it’s missing something

/cc @chrissimpkins

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kloczekcommented, Jul 23, 2022

Ha I’ve alredy opened ticked for those issues 😋 https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/issues/2358

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