At 08:09 PM 7/24/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
Presently it used pkg_resources to read the list of packages installed which is part of setuptools. I was told it was the "right" and only way to read a list of packages.
"Right" is relative, but right now it is certainly the *only* way to read a list of installed packages, that's compatible with both distutils and setuptools-based ways of installing packages (including of course pip, enstaller, and buildout).
PEP 376 proposes a stdlib replacement for a portion of this functionality, but the status of whether it's actually going to support anything other than distutils, pip, and setuptools' backward-compatibility mode is apparently still up for grabs.
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