[Bug]: No module named 'distutils'

[ikondov]

Code snippet

rlaunch --help

What happened?

1. I am running the rlaunch command after a fresh install of fireworks, most recent release.
2. The result behavior: I get this exception

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "python-3.12.3_intel_2023.1.0/bin/rlaunch", line 5, in <module>
    from fireworks.scripts.rlaunch_run import rlaunch
  File "python-3.12.3_intel_2023.1.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fireworks/scripts/rlaunch_run.py", line 13, in <module>
    from fireworks.core.rocket_launcher import launch_rocket, rapidfire
  File "python-3.12.3_intel_2023.1.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fireworks/core/rocket_launcher.py", line 10, in <module>
    from fireworks.core.rocket import Rocket
  File "python-3.12.3_intel_2023.1.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fireworks/core/rocket.py", line 6, in <module>
    import distutils.dir_util
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

3. The expected behavior: There should be no crash running the command
4. Proposed solution: The solution of this issue is to add setuptools to the install_requires section of setup.py. But the import of distutils has been removed in the main branch after this PR Replace copy_tree from distutils with copytree from shutil #533. Therefore, we need a new release. I would ask the maintainers to consider a new release soon in order to make these fixes available to the end users.

Version

2.0.3

Which OS?

• MacOS
• Windows
• Linux

Log output

No response

[ikondov]

A workaround is to install setuptools manually like python -m pip install setuptools but end users of downstream packages using fireworks will not arrive at this intuitively. The best solution is to have a new release with the fixes in the main branch.