Stop installing setuptools and wheel by default on Python 3.12+ environments · Issue #2487 · pypa/virtualenv (original) (raw)

What's the problem this feature will solve?

pip can now operate without setuptools in the environment, and it will be removed from the default set of venv packages in Python 3.12+ (python/cpython#101039)

Describe the solution you'd like

What the title says. :)

Alternative Solutions

Not doing this, and being inconsistent with venv.

Additional context

N/A