Remove use of deprecated distutils (#310)

setup.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 # At least we're on the python version we need, move on.
 
-# BEFORE importing distutils, remove MANIFEST. distutils doesn't properly
+# BEFORE importing setuptools, remove MANIFEST. Setuptools doesn't properly
 # update it when the contents of directories change.
 if os.path.exists('MANIFEST'): os.remove('MANIFEST')
 
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
 
 from setupbase import (
-    version,
     find_packages,
     find_package_data,
     check_package_data_first,
@@ -68,9 +67,9 @@
     package_data    = find_package_data(),
 )
 
-# Custom distutils/setuptools commands ----------
-from distutils.command.build_py import build_py
-from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
+# Custom setuptools commands ---------------------
+from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
+from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist
 from setuptools.command.bdist_egg import bdist_egg
 from setuptools.command.develop import develop
 

setupbase.py

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
 # Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
+import logging
 import os
 import re
 import shlex
 import shutil
 import sys
 
-from distutils import log
-from distutils.cmd import Command
+from setuptools import Command
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
 from glob import glob
 from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
     def list2cmdline(cmd_list):
         return ' '.join(map(shlex.quote, cmd_list))
 
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Useful globals and utility functions
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------