# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
# Date 2023-06-27 10:09:17
# Node ID b1ac55606eb7886d3c092ab1a913a41523680c57
# Parent  b3a5af04da35c87f7a31398b652e9dc93b9ab817

setup: fall back to setuptools setup if distutils isn't available

The setuptools comments around this seems slightly outdated. Setuptools is
improving and distutils is being deprecated, so it should perhaps be the
default. But at least, it is a fair fallback.

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ issetuptools = os.name == 'nt' or 'FORCE
 if issetuptools:
     from setuptools import setup
 else:
-    from distutils.core import setup
+    try:
+        from distutils.core import setup
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        from setuptools import setup
 from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
 from distutils.core import Command, Extension
 from distutils.dist import Distribution