build: Migrate from pkg_resources to importlib

EbonJaeger · EbonJaeger · commit 67adbb736cd7 · 2026-06-08T19:35:01.000-04:00
Setuptools 82 removed the `pkg_resources` module.
The replacement is `importlib`. This fixes the use
of the removed module.

Signed-off-by: Evan Maddock &lt;maddock.evan@vivaldi.net&gt;
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Distutils script for python-xlib
 
-from pkg_resources import parse_requirements
+from importlib.metadata import version
 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)
+installed_version = version('setuptools')
+setuptools_require = '30.3.0'
+assert setuptools_version >= setuptools_require, '{} is required'.format(setuptools_require)
 
 
 setup(
