Issue template versions command no longer works

[vyasr]

setuptools version 60.0.0 made the local copy of distutils the default. Due to this change, certain import orders of distutils and setuptools seem to cause problems, cf. pypa/setuptools#3439 and pypa/setuptools#3089. Current pandas.show_versions suffers from the same problem, and as a result cannot report versions when opening issues.

Users can get around this by setting the environment variable SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib, but they may not know to do so. One option would just be to just change the issue template to ask users to execute SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib python -c "import pandas; pandas.show_versions()", but I don't know if this error is persistent across all Python versions, or if it will be an issue until Python 3.12 (when distutils is officially removed).

[mroeschke]

Thanks for the report. I think this might be the same issue as #44980 and is being worked on at #47096

[vyasr]

Ah yes, I think so, thanks. I'm not sure how I missed that one. I think we can close this.