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Deprecate and remove easy_install

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The invention of pip has long been crowned the replacement for the installer behavior in setuptools. Since the release of pip 10, the Python ecosystem has a better model for addressing the build dependencies by supporting PEP 518.

This project wishes to eliminate all dependency on the easy_install behavior (the distutils command, console script) including…

The invention of pip has long been crowned the replacement for the installer behavior in setuptools. Since the release of pip 10, the Python ecosystem has a better model for addressing the build dependencies by supporting PEP 518.

This project wishes to eliminate all dependency on the easy_install behavior (the distutils command, console script) including support for setup_requires.

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