Replace/move _normalization.path with/to _path.samepath and _path.normpath

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/_normalization.py b/setuptools/_normalization.py
index d6343ca5..7012ffea 100644
--- a/setuptools/_normalization.py
+++ b/setuptools/_normalization.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-import os
 import re
-import sys
 import warnings
 from inspect import cleandoc
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -17,13 +15,6 @@ _VALID_NAME = re.compile(r"^([A-Z0-9]|[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9._-]*[A-Z0-9])$", re.I)
 _UNSAFE_NAME_CHARS = re.compile(r"[^A-Z0-9.]+", re.I)
 
 
-def path(filename: _Path) -> str:
-    """Normalize a file/dir name for comparison purposes."""
-    # See pkg_resources.normalize_path
-    file = os.path.abspath(filename) if sys.platform == 'cygwin' else filename
-    return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(os.path.normpath(file)))
-
-
 def safe_identifier(name: str) -> str:
     """Make a string safe to be used as Python identifier.
     >>> safe_identifier("12abc")