widget_tweaks causes 'DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API'

[fsargent]

Python 3.8
widget_tweaks 1.4.2

    from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
  File "/Users/felixsargent/src/hiring/resume-ranker-frontend/mysite/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 121, in <module>
    warnings.warn("pkg_resources is deprecated as an API", DeprecationWarning)
DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API

found using pytest -W error

FWIW, both pkg_resources and directly invoking setup.py install are semi-deprecated and are mostly unsupported.

The replacement for pkg_resources.distribution(...).version is importlib.metadata.version(...) (backported to pre-3.7 Python as importlib_metadata), though I doubt that will solve anyone's problem if the installation metadata is simply not present.

pypa/setuptools#2088 (comment), but the short answer is that you should always prefer pip install to setup.py install, even in a package manager. A few people (particularly those involved in Arch linux packaging) have been working on minimal PEP 517 build frontend to build wheels and a minimal wheel installer, so possibly early adoption of those technologies will work better for you, @PureTryOut.

googleapis/python-api-core#27 (comment)

[PureTryOut]

Please remove usernames when quoting, as you now pinged me needlessly.