Installation uses deprecated python APIs and fails on Archlinux

[Alexeyan]

Hi.

When trying to install it in Ida it fails with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
  File "/home/foo/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2191, in <module>
    register_finder(pkgutil.ImpImporter, find_on_path)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?

Python 3.12 deprecated this installation method afaik.

[marc-etienne]

You are right, the script uses two deprecated functions from pkg_resources:

• ipyida/install_from_ida.py

  Line 153 in 100c655

  pkg_resources.resource_filename("ipyida", "ipyida_plugin_stub.py"),

• ipyida/install_from_ida.py

  Line 160 in 100c655

  _ida_version = pkg_resources.parse_version(idaapi.get_kernel_version())

For the first one I found this guide to use importlib instead: https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/migration.html#pkg-resources-resource-filename.

I'll try to update the script.

[marc-etienne]

BTW, I'd wait before updating to Python 3.12 in IDA, there are other issues in IDAPython which make IDA crash (see #65). Maybe this is fixed in 9.0, but I can't confirm.