On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I've made progress in my experiment to replace pkg_resources usage in pip > with code in distlib. The basic approach is to replace references to > pkg_resources with references to pip.vendor.distlib.pkg_resources, where the > latter module is a shim to emulate the pkg_resources API using distlib to > actually implement the functionality. > > Although I don't have the very latest upstream pip updates merged in yet, I > have test results which mirror the develop branch (one failure, related to my > test environment - test_correct_pip_version). I believe I have now replaced > all uses of pkg_resources (when I mentioned this effort previously on this > list, pip/req.py had not yet been converted).
Very promising! > Note that the pip.vendor.distlib version is slightly different to the > released distlib - the main difference being that the metadata version in the > released distlib is treated as 2.0, whereas for pip I had to change it to > 1.3. Given the flux in PEP 426, it's probably best to stick with metadata 1.2 for now. There's no such thing as 1.3, and 2.0 is now going to be a rather different beast (with the on-disk serialisation format changing to JSON). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
