installer breaks something. Causes a DeprecationWarning. (IDFGH-10465)

[nopnop2002]

Answers checklist.

• I have read the documentation ESP-IDF Programming Guide and the issue is not addressed there.
• I have updated my IDF branch (master or release) to the latest version and checked that the issue is present there.
• I have searched the issue tracker for a similar issue and not found a similar issue.

IDF version.

esp-idf-v5.2-dev-1128

Operating System used.

Linux

How did you build your project?

Command line with idf.py

If you are using Windows, please specify command line type.

None

What is the expected behavior?

$ idf.py --version
ESP-IDF v5.2-dev-1128-g03d4fa2869

What is the actual behavior?

I updated from esp-idf-v5.2-dev-544 to esp-idf-v5.2-dev-1128.

The following warning will occur:

$ idf.py --version
/home/nop/esp-idf/tools/check_python_dependencies.py:12: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  import pkg_resources
ESP-IDF v5.2-dev-1128-g03d4fa2869

So I changed it back to esp-idf-v5.2-dev-544.

$ idf.py --version
/home/nop/esp-idf/tools/check_python_dependencies.py:12: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  import pkg_resources
ESP-IDF v5.2-dev-544-g54576b7528

esp-idf-v5.2-dev-1128's installer breaks something.

Steps to reproduce.

1. install esp-idf-v5.2-dev-544.
2. Execute idf.py --version.
3. update to esp-idf-v5.2-dev-1128.
4. Execute idf.py --version.

Build or installation Logs.

No response

More Information.

No response

[dobairoland]

We know about this and will be fixed soon.

I don't think anything is broken. You can ignore that warning. Everything should work.

[nopnop2002]

This problem also occurs when doing a clean install of ESP-IDF release/v5.0 and release/v5.1.

git clone -b release/v5.0 --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git
cd esp-idf
./install.sh
. ./export.sh
idf.py --version

[peterdragun]

Yes, the pkg_resources was used in all versions and was recently deprecated by the setuptools in version 67.5.0

[nopnop2002]

So when we using setuptools older than 67.5.0, does the problem not occur?

[peterdragun]

Yes, but it is not really a problem. It is just a warning message, it hasn't affected any functionallity of ESP-IDF even with newer setuptools.

[peterdragun]

export.sh seems to force the setuptools to rewrite to the latest.

export.sh is switching to a different Python environment. So changing any package locally does not affect the IDF environment. If you care about the warning you can downgrade setuptools after running the export.sh as a temporary workaround until we implement a proper fix. We are already working on it and this issue will be fixed soon.

[nopnop2002]

i am waiting for a fix.
Thanks for your comment.

[bbannert]

Hi all. I'm getting the same message from ESP-IDF environment when compiling my code. The problem is that I'm getting this like an ERROR, not like a Warning. I'll be waiting for the fix too. Hope to get it soon.

[nopnop2002]

@bbannert
Temporary measures are as follows.

$ cd esp-idf

$ . ./export.sh

$ idf.py --version
/home/nop/esp-idf/tools/check_python_dependencies.py:12: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  import pkg_resources
ESP-IDF v5.2-dev-1449-gd2471b11e7

$ python3 -m pip uninstall setuptools

$ python3 -m pip install setuptools==45.2.0


$ idf.py --version
ESP-IDF v5.2-dev-1449-gd2471b11e7

[dobairoland]

@bbannert Which IDE are you using? Vscode or Eclipse?