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When installing CLIP via pip on Python 3.10+ systems with setuptools 71+, the installation fails with: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
## Problem When installing CLIP via pip on Python 3.10+ systems with setuptools 71+, the installation fails with: ``` ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' ``` pip creates an **isolated build environment** in a temporary directory when building packages from source. In this isolated environment, setuptools is installed fresh — and in newer versions (71+), `pkg_resources` is no longer automatically available as a top-level importable module within that subprocess context, even though setuptools itself is present. The original `setup.py` imported `pkg_resources` at the module level and used `pkg_resources.parse_requirements()` to read `requirements.txt`. Since this code runs inside pip's isolated build subprocess, it fails before the wheel can even be built — making CLIP completely uninstallable from source on modern systems without workarounds. Closes #532 ## What Changed **Before:** ```python import pkg_resources install_requires=[ str(r) for r in pkg_resources.parse_requirements( open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt")) ) ] ``` **After:** ```python install_requires=[ stripped for line in open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt")) for stripped in [line.strip()] if stripped and not stripped.startswith("#") ], ``` - Removed the `pkg_resources` import entirely - Replaced `parse_requirements()` with plain Python file I/O - Strips each line before checking for blank/comment — so lines like `" # comment"` are correctly excluded (previous version missed these) - Properly indented inside `install_requires` ## Impact - Fixes installation on any system running setuptools 71+ - Tested on Python 3.10.19, setuptools 82.0.1 - No behavior change for existing users - Removes the only legacy `pkg_resources` dependency from `setup.py` - Makes the build process more robust and future-proof
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author="OpenAI",
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packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests*"]),
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install_requires=[
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extras_require={'dev': ['pytest']},

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