On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:18 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> wrote:
> Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06: > > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata > > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html?highlight=pkg_resources#creating-and-parsing > > It is not very complicated. It looks like the characters are mostly > 'python identifier' rules with a little bit of 'package name' rules. > > I am also concerned about the amount of parsing on startup. A hard problem > for certain, since no one likes outdated cache problems either. It is also > unpleasant to have too much code with a runtime dependency on 'packaging'. > > Wasn't someone working on implementing pkg_resources in the standard > library at some point? > I'm just saying it is good to avoid importing it unless you really need to. Same reason we removed it from entry point script wrappers.
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