setuptools / pkg_resources now also needs `platformdirs`

[Athanasius]

setuptools / pkg_resources now also needs `platformdirs`

[Athanasius]

I've been puzzled as to why I only just noticed this, and I'd been doing test builds recently and the .exes ran fine. infi.systray was last updated years ago, so it's not a change in it that's to blame.

But maybe the recent setuptools 66.0.0 update has caused this to come to light ?
Yeah, I forgot again that it's setuptools that depends on pkg_resources, it's just that something infi.systray does keeps on bringing this stuff up.

[dimitry-unified-streaming]

This is specifically caused by https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/main/CHANGES.rst#changes-1 :

• pypa/setuptools#3769: Replace 'appdirs' with 'platformdirs'.

E.g. for setuptools >= 66.0.0. Not sure how this should be implemented in py2exe, can it just be added to the list of packages in hooks.py, similar to 24b4668 ?

[albertosottile]

Saw this, looks like a quite easy fix in the hook (for now, until we fix the way setuptools vendors stuff permanently). However I am completely swamped at the moment, so I cannot work on this right away.

[albertosottile]

I wanted to work on "persistent" fix for this, but it looks like none of the tests in the CI can reproduce this (perhaps they do not require explicitly pkg_resources or any of its extern dependencies).

Can you provide a minimal example that can be used to test this bug? Thanks

[Athanasius]

Unfortunately I am no longer part of EDMarketConnector development, so have a lot less interest in all things py2exe now.

And currently I can't get my old example at https://github.com/Athanasius/infi-systray_py2exe to even actually include infi.systray files in the library.zip.

The actual pkg_resources issue will be something to do with the:

__import__("pkg_resources").declare_namespace(__name__)
from .traybar import SysTrayIcon

which is the entirety of infi/systray/__init__.py though.

[albertosottile]

Unfortunately I am no longer part of EDMarketConnector development, so have a lot less interest in all things py2exe now.

I am truly sorry to hear that.

Anyway, I attempted to fix this bug and you would find preliminary wheels with the fix here: https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe/actions/runs/4157014939.

In case you are still willing to test this, I would appreciate it.

[albertosottile]

Fixed in 0.13.0.1