From d8227a92da2a4d715097966449175fd2255a98c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Lai <randy.cs.lai@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:33:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] use parse_version

close #29
---
 rchitect/utils.py | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rchitect/utils.py b/rchitect/utils.py
index 885026c..a3e22ce 100644
--- a/rchitect/utils.py
+++ b/rchitect/utils.py
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
 import sys
 import ctypes
 import locale
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
-if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-    from shutil import which
+from shutil import which
+
+if sys.version_info[:3] >= (3, 12, 0)
+    from pkg_resources import parse_version
 else:
-    from backports.shutil_which import which
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion as parse_version
 
 if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
     if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
@@ -121,9 +122,9 @@ def rversion(rhome=None):
         output = subprocess.check_output(
             [os.path.join(rhome, "bin", "R"), "--slave", "-e", "cat(as.character(getRversion()))"],
             stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode("utf-8").strip()
-        version = LooseVersion(output)
+        version = parse_version(output)
     except Exception:
-        version = LooseVersion("1000.0.0")
+        version = parse_version("1000.0.0")
     return version