Remove 'dry run' functionality throughout.

Open jaraco opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

Summary of changes

At first, I considered deprecating this functionality. Then I realized that this functionality is exposed almost exclusively through a parameter to setup.py, which is already deprecated. Moreover, it seems unlikely that anyone would use this functionality in today's modern usage. I personally haven't used it even going back to the most legacy usage.

Removing these changes from Setuptools should unblock the failing tests in pypa/distutils#335, and in fact, maybe they should be merged together for easier rollback if needed. [Update] The changes from pypa/distutils#335 are included in this merge.

Ref pypa/distutils#334

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Mar 09 '25 18:03 jaraco

@abravalheri Any reservations before I proceed with merging?

Mar 16 '25 17:03 jaraco