setup.py fails on setuptools >= 78 (pkg_resources removed)

[christianholzDE]

Description

pip install -e . fails on Python 3.12.3 with setuptools 77.0.3 because setup.py imports pkg_resources, which seems deprecated?

Error

The traceback points to setup.py line 8 (the last for statement)

import pkg_resources

with open('requirements.txt') as requirements_txt:
    install_requires = [
        str(requirement)
        for requirement in pkg_resources.parse_requirements(requirements_txt)
    ]

Suggested resolution

Replace pkg_resources.parse_requirements() with simple string parsing; not as nice, but fixed it:

with open('requirements.txt') as requirements_txt:
    install_requires = [
        str(r).strip() for r in requirements_txt.read().splitlines()
        if r.strip() and not r.strip().startswith('#')
    ]

Environment

• Python 3.12.3
• setuptools 77.0.3
• Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
• MIMo (tagged as) v2.0.0