Re: [Python-Dev] modules people want installed automatically (was: Re: re performance)

2017-01-30 Thread Brett Cannon
Proper support in the loader API is possible and was on its way to being coded up until GitHub took precedence (realize this project has put all other major python projects of mine on hold for nearly 2 years hence the delay). And pkg_resources I'm sure could be updated to use any new API when avail

Re: [Python-Dev] modules people want installed automatically (was: Re: re performance)

2017-01-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 30, 2017, at 06:14 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >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 obvious

[Python-Dev] modules people want installed automatically (was: Re: re performance)

2017-01-30 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 at 06:27 Barry Warsaw 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 > setupt