Is setup.py still relevant in AWS CDK v2 projects?

Hi there,

Setup.py is now not being added in by default in CDKV2. I've only seen it be added into CDK apps that were generated by the CDKv1 CLI:

You can review the below github issue for more information

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/9135

That the reason you were seeing the setup.py file initally when working CDKv1.

It was deprecated due to standards changing and to instead use pip as a standalone since setup.py introduced issues with package installations: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html