pkg_resource deprecated #286
Description
setuptools 67 deprecated pkg_resource, and in 82 it was removed, leading to:
* Building wheel...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
main()
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 280, in build_wheel
return _build_backend().build_wheel(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 438, in build_wheel
return _build(['bdist_wheel'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 429, in _build
return self._build_with_temp_dir(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 410, in _build_with_temp_dir
self.run_setup()
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 520, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
when trying to build it.
Workaround:
``
--- setup.py.orig 2026-02-17 15:06:10.418245753 +0000
+++ setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
Distutils script for python-xlib
-from pkg_resources import parse_requirements
from setuptools import (version as setuptools_version, setup)
Check setuptools is recent enough to support setup.cfg.
-setuptools_require = next(parse_requirements('setuptools>=30.3.0'))
-assert setuptools_version in setuptools_require, '{} is required'.format(setuptools_require)
setup(