Good catch.

Well... setuptools is still an indirect dependency, from gevent so it doesnt make any significant difference.

gevent==24.11.1
├── zope.event [required: Any, installed: 5.0]
│   └── setuptools [required: Any, installed: 80.9.0]
├── zope.interface [required: Any, installed: 6.3]
│   └── setuptools [required: Any, installed: 80.9.0]
└── greenlet [required: >=3.1.1, installed: 3.2.1]

still an indirect dependency

welp, it looks like setuptools has been/will be removed from:

• the latest version of zope.interface
• the next release of zope.event

hopefully all this gets resolved before the next breaking setuptools change: the seemingly monthly new warnings are tiresome and confusing to users.