From 18a44d8f5660df9e23ee823a073b2d3238bc8293 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:00:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add news fragment.

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 newsfragments/4600.removal.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 newsfragments/4600.removal.rst

diff --git a/newsfragments/4600.removal.rst b/newsfragments/4600.removal.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9164225381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/4600.removal.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Removed the monkeypatching of distutils._msvccompiler. Now all compiler logic is consolidated in distutils.
\ No newline at end of file