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Looks like PyCAM was developed while Python 3.4 was around, but it reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. The changes needed for it to work, however, are minimal, and are introduced in this pull request.

Summary of changes:

  • Replaced deprecated imp module with importlib.util in plugin system. The imp module was deprecated in Python 3.4 and removed in Python 3.12. This PR updates the plugin loading system in pycam/Plugins/__init__.py to use the modern importlib.util API instead.
  • Added documentation for Python 3.12+ compatibility.
  • Added virtualenv setup instructions for GTK dependencies.
  • Added dependencies for Arch Linux installation.

Tested on Arch Linux with Python 3.13.7 in a virtualenv with --system-site-packages.

This solves issue #191, it was originally thought that requirements are incomplete, but in reality some dependencies of base Python are not around anymore in newer versions.

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