Dropping `pkg_resources`
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- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- stream-processing
Research direction
Start in streamz/plugins.py at the import and iter_entry_points call linked in the issue. Replace that dependency with importlib.metadata.entry_points and verify that plugin entry-point discovery still works without pkg_resources.
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Description
Currently this uses pkg_resources, which is planned to go away:
The code using it mainly uses the iter_entry_points function:
This could be replaced by importlib.metadata.entry_points, which has been around since Python 3.8.
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