NameError: name 'pkg_resources' is not defined (Python ≥ 3.12) #394
Description
Attempting to pipx install vim-vint on a host with a contemporary python currently results in a program doing nothing more useful than spewing out a stack trace ending in:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
Python 3.12's release notes seems to mention something about this under the subsection Important deprecations, removals or restrictions.
Issue #369 requesting a new release was filed almost five years ago, but essentially only met with an answer that the major release will not happen once all milestones have been accomplished. Fair enough.
There is a stable-0.3 branch, which unfortunately still has the issue. Starting with commit ad2fef9, the master branch appears to be working. That commit does depend on other changes, so it is not possible to cherry-pick for an easy win. I have not dived into actually attempting to understand what's going on, but from the surface it seems like adding some compatibility package might be enough to get the stable branch working with Python 3.12 and 3.13? Is the fix obvious for someone within the python eco-system. If so, could a 0.3.22 be released?
While not a solution, a possible workaround would seem to install vim-vint using an older python release. Before anyone tries that, beware that I made an attempt. Don't bother with pipx install --python 3.11 --fetch-missing-python vim-vint. It relies on fetching non-existing files and thus is broken. Installing vim-vint from this git repository, pipx install ., is the workaround which works.