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Mon Jan 30 13:14:35 EST 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-January/147285.html

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 at 06:27 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >I think there are 3 main candidates that could fit that bill:
> >
> >- requests
> >- setuptools
> >- regex
>
> Actually, I think pkg_resources would make an excellent candidate.  The
> setuptools crew is working on a branch that would allow for setuptools and
> pkg_resources to be split, which would be great for other reasons.
> Splitting
> them may mean that pkg_resources could eventually be added to the stdlib,
> but
> as an intermediate step, it could also test out this idea.  It probably
> has a
> lot less of the baggage that you outline.

What functionality are you after here from pkg_resources? If it's the
reading of data files then you will get that in the stdlib through
importlib as soon as I'm not working on getting our workflow to work
through GitHub's web UI (which obviously includes the migration itself).
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