Merge pull request #812 from dandi/no-distutils

Stop using distutils

dandi/pynwb_utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from collections import Counter
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 import os
 import os.path as op
 import re
@@ -73,8 +72,7 @@ def log(v):  # does nothing
         log(f"{msg} is not text which follows semver specification")
 
     if isinstance(v, str) and not semantic_version.validate(v):
-        msgtype = "error" if LooseVersion(v) >= "2.1.0" else "warning"
-        log(f"{msgtype}: {msg} is not a proper semantic version. See http://semver.org")
+        log(f"error: {msg} is not a proper semantic version. See http://semver.org")
 
     return v
 
@@ -276,8 +274,11 @@ def validate(path, devel_debug=False):
             # Explicitly sanitize so we collect warnings.
             # TODO: later cast into proper ERRORs
             version = _sanitize_nwb_version(version, log=errors.append)
-            loosever = LooseVersion(version)
-            if loosever and loosever < "2.1.0":
+            try:
+                v = semantic_version.Version(version)
+            except ValueError:
+                v = None
+            if v is not None and v < semantic_version.Version("2.1.0"):
                 errors_ = errors[:]
                 errors = [e for e in errors if not re_ok_prior_210.search(str(e))]
                 if errors != errors_:

versioneer.py

@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ def get_cmdclass():
     cmds = {}
 
     # we add "version" to both distutils and setuptools
-    from distutils.core import Command
+    from setuptools import Command
 
     class cmd_version(Command):
         description = "report generated version string"