Oct. 23, 2014
8:57 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
As oh right now pkg_resources is part of setuptools, it’s only the downstream folks who split them apart. There are some decisions to make regarding splitting them out that I don’t know how setuptools wants to handle it.
However once the stuff that pkg_resources provides is standardized it will be available as part of https://warehouse.python.org/project/packaging/ so projects wishing to use the standards based functionality (most of which is heavily inspired if not outright “stolen” from setuptools/pkg_resources) will be able to use that eventually.
It's great to hear that some work is being done on splitting them out, thanks for the response!