`convert_path` is not part of setuptools API and will be removed about ck HOT 7 CLOSED

Sure. Thanks for noting the issue! Then the CM project should be fine but we keep CK archived for now. I will close this issue!

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Hi

Thank you for noting that @abravalheri!

The CK framework is archived and we do not update it unless requested by users, but this deprecation influence our new CM framework here.

Do you know if there is an alternative from distutils? Should I do something like this code to import it (while keeping backward compatibility for older systems with setuptools)?

Thank you!

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Do you know if there is an alternative from distutils? Should I do something like this code to import it (while keeping backward compatibility for older systems with setuptools)?

Hi @gfursin, I find that convert_path is usually not essential for implementing the common functionality.

This is the description of the function:

   """Return 'pathname' as a name that will work on the native filesystem,
   i.e. split it on '/' and put it back together again using the current
   directory separator.  Needed because filenames in the setup script are
   always supplied in Unix style, and have to be converted to the local
   convention before we can actually use them in the filesystem.  Raises
   ValueError on non-Unix-ish systems if 'pathname' either starts or
   ends with a slash.
   """

But most of the Python functions nowadays already allow you to use / for paths even on windows...

Other than that, the function also raises an error if the path is absolute or if it ends in /, but that is easily implementable with os.path.isabs and str.rstrip if needed... Finally, if normalisation is needed you can go with os.path.normpath.

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I see that in this particular setup.py what is being used is something like:

long_description=open(convert_path('./README.md'),
                          encoding="utf-8").read(),

which probably will work just fine if you replace
convert_path('./README.md') => "README.md"

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Cool! Thank you for the update. Let me check it this week!

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I removed convert_path from the CM framework.

Are you using CK framework? If not, I prefer not to touch it until it really fails in the future ;) ...

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Hi @gfursin, thank you for taking a look on this.

No, I am not working with CK. I am working on removing deprecated parts from setuptools.

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