Stop referring to pkg_resources, removed check --deptree

HISTORY.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
+3.8.0 (2025-03-25)
+------------------
+
+* Stopped using ``pkg_resources``.
+
+* Removed ``--deptree`` flag from redefined ``check`` command, this way of visualizing
+  a dependency tree is not useful anymore, please use ``uv pip tree`` or hdeps_ instead.
+
+
 3.7.2 (2025-03-20)
 ------------------
 
@@ -544,3 +553,5 @@ Release notes
 .. _report: https://github.com/codrsquad/setupmeta/issues
 
 .. _pip-compile: https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/
+
+.. _hdeps: https://pypi.org/project/hdeps/

docs/versioning.rst

@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ here for illustration purposes. In general, you should simply use ``versioning="
 (or any other format you like).
 
 You could leverage this ``__version__`` possibility if you have specific use case for that
-(like: you'd like to show which version your code is at without using something like
-``import pkg_resources``)
+(like: you'd like to show which version your code is at without having to do any
+dynamic query)
 
 
 Preconfigured formats

setupmeta/__init__.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 author: Zoran Simic zoran@simicweb.com
 """
 
-import io
 import os
 import platform
 import re
@@ -18,14 +17,6 @@
 
 import setuptools
 
-try:
-    import pkg_resources
-
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    warnings.warn("pkg_resources is not available, expect limited functionality", category=RuntimeWarning)
-    pkg_resources = None
-
-
 USER_HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")  # Used to pretty-print subfolders of ~
 DEBUG = os.environ.get("SETUPMETA_DEBUG")
 VERSION_FILE = ".setupmeta.version"  # File used to work with projects that are in a subfolder of a git checkout
@@ -40,7 +31,7 @@
 
 # Simplistic parsing of known formats used in requirements.txt
 RE_SIMPLE_PIN = re.compile(r"^(%s)\s*==\s*([^;\s]+)\s*(;.*)?$" % PKGID)
-RE_WORDS = re.compile(r"[^\w]+")
+RE_WORDS = re.compile(r"\W+")
 RE_PKG_NAME = re.compile(r"^(%s)$" % PKGID)
 
 ABSTRACT = "abstract"
@@ -67,19 +58,6 @@ def trace(message):
     sys.stderr.flush()
 
 
-def pkg_req(text):
-    """
-    :param str|None text: Text to parse
-    :return pkg_resources.Requirement|None: Corresponding parsed requirement, if valid
-    """
-    if text:
-        try:
-            return pkg_resources.Requirement(text)
-
-        except Exception:
-            return None
-
-
 def get_words(text):
     if text:
         return [s.strip() for s in RE_WORDS.split(text) if s.strip()]
@@ -170,7 +148,7 @@ def version_components(text):
             component = "%s%s" % (qualifier, component)
             qualifier = ""
 
-        additional.append(component)
+        additional.append(str(component))
 
     while len(main_triplet) < 3:
         main_triplet.append(0)
@@ -183,7 +161,6 @@ def version_components(text):
         additional.append(qualifier)
 
     dirty = "dirty" in additional
-
     return main_triplet[0], main_triplet[1], main_triplet[2], ".".join(additional), distance, dirty
 
 
@@ -316,7 +293,7 @@ def _should_ignore_run_fail(program, args, error):
         return False
 
     if args[0] in ("rev-list", "rev-parse") and "HEAD" in args:
-        # No commits yet, brand new git repo
+        # No commits yet, brand-new git repo
         return error and "revision" in error.lower()
 
     if args[0] == "describe":
@@ -418,7 +395,7 @@ def readlines(relative_path, limit=0):
         try:
             result = []
             full_path = project_path(relative_path)
-            with io.open(full_path, "rt") as fh:
+            with open(full_path, "rt") as fh:
                 for line in fh:
                     limit -= 1
                     if limit == 0: