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Backblaze / b2-sdk-python

Python library to access B2 cloud storage.
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Remove setuptools as a runtime dependency #479

Closed vishwin closed 8 months ago

vishwin commented 8 months ago

setuptools is not actually used in any runtime code. Only liccheck during lint uses it for pkg_resources, which has long been deprecated (and is more liccheck's problem to migrate away). liccheck also does not yet officially support Python 3.12, otherwise I would think they would explicitly specify the setuptools dependency themselves.

The only reason why setuptools would be present in a runtime environment is for pkg_resources, whose functionality has been replaced by packaging and the importlib suite. Otherwise, setuptools pollutes the environment, particularly at the operating system distribution level. Many Python packages have not adopted PEP 517 and still execute setup.py directly, functionality that setuptools deprecated in 58 and no longer supports after. Multiple setuptools cannot exist in the same environment.

mjurbanski-reef commented 8 months ago

seems like leftover from old days, thank you for fixing this!