`St-dbscan` Fails to Build With New Version of Setuptools

[elfjones]

Installing st-dbscan==0.2.3 fails when using a newer version of setuptools(>=82.0). This occurs during the build step due to the removal of pkg_resources from setuptools.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

Which originates in the package's setup.py:

from pkg_resources import VersionConflict, require

try:
    require('setuptools>=38.3')
except VersionConflict:
    print("Error: version of setuptools is too old (<38.3)!")
    sys.exit(1)

Root Cause

• pkg_resources is now deprecated and removed from setuptools>=82
• but package still depends on pkg_resources.require() for version checking
• Build fails in modern envs, especially with pip's build isolation

Suggested Fix

• Remove pkg_resources dependencies
• and move to updated packaging standards by adding a pyproject.toml