Remove distutils

[fabaff]

distutils is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12

https://peps.python.org/pep-0632//#migration-advice

[ojii]

this project doesn't use distutils from what I can see. what exactly are you suggesting should change?

[fabaff]

this project doesn't use distutils from what I can see

arsenic/src/arsenic/services.py

Line 5 in 7d594ea

from distutils.version import StrictVersion

[ojii]

ah, i was only looking in packaging related code.

[fabaff]

arsenic is a dependency of wapiti and with distutils it would not be possible to wapiti with Python 3.12.

[catap]

Python 3.12 is coming for everyone and this needs to be fixed.

@ojii, do you plan to make a new release with this fix?

I'm asking because @devl00p had forked arsenic for wapiti... and the future of his fork is unclear to me, when and if the new version of arseinc will be released.

[ojii]

Python 3.12 is coming for everyone and this needs to be fixed.

I'm on 3.12/3.13 these days and arsenic still works for me.

arsenic does what I need it to do, so it doesn't receive a lot of maintenance, given how much of a pain it is to test any changes to this library.

[dimaqq]

PRs are most welcome.

here’s what I’d do (didn’t test, ymmv):

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
packaging = "^23.0"

And then

from packaging.version import Version


# Old code
if StrictVersion(current_version) < StrictVersion('1.0.0'):
    # perform some action

# Updated code
if Version(current_version) < Version('1.0.0'):
    # perform some action

[ojii]

PRs are most welcome.

there is a PR already, that's not the issue #166