@iosonofabio

Thanks for reporting this. What was the command you used to install the package?

Technically, this build dependency was already spelled out in the pyproject.toml:

Here the installation commands:

python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install goatools
.venv/bin/python -c 'import goatools'

results in:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/fabio/Desktop/tes/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/goatools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

Indeed, when I run the pip install, it does not seem to install setuptools. Could it be that I have setuptools on my global python (1:69.0.3) and it's too old? No minimal version is speficied in pyproject.toml so perhaps that's what's going on?

I think you are right. I am not sure what the minimum version should be.
Is 1:69.0.3 the setuptools version on your computer? I have:

python -c "import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)"
57.5.0

python -c "import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)"
69.0.3

... ah gotcha, see #299