Remove setuptools dependency (#3437)

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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Sorokin <dmd40in@gmail.com>

RELEASE.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ## Bug fixes and other changes
 * Removed example pipeline requirements when examples are not selected in `tools`.
 * Allowed modern versions of JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks.
+* Removed setuptools dependency
 
 ## Breaking changes to the API
 * Added logging about not using async mode in `SequentiallRunner` and `ParallelRunner`.

kedro/framework/cli/micropkg.py

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 from rope.contrib import generate
 from rope.refactor.move import MoveModule
 from rope.refactor.rename import Rename
-from setuptools.discovery import FlatLayoutPackageFinder
 
 from build.util import project_wheel_metadata
 from kedro.framework.cli.pipeline import (
@@ -227,9 +226,11 @@ def _pull_package(  # noqa: PLR0913
         # However, the rest of the code expects the non-normalized package name,
         # so we have to find it.
         packages = [
-            package
-            for package in FlatLayoutPackageFinder().find(project_root_dir)
-            if "." not in package
+            project_item.name
+            for project_item in project_root_dir.iterdir()
+            if project_item.is_dir()
+            and project_item.name != "tests"
+            and (project_item / "__init__.py").exists()
         ]
         if len(packages) != 1:
             # Should not happen if user is calling `micropkg pull`

pyproject.toml

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "PyYAML>=4.2,<7.0",
     "rich>=12.0,<14.0",
     "rope>=0.21,<2.0",  # subject to LGPLv3 license
-    "setuptools>=65.5.1",
     "toml>=0.10.0",
     "toposort>=1.5",  # Needs to be at least 1.5 to be able to raise CircularDependencyError
 ]