Prefer pathlib

[dimbleby]

I've been sitting for a while on some tweaks to move poetry-core in the direction of preferring pathlib over os for file and path manipulations, but they've not seemed interesting enough to be worth an MR.

However I notice that they in passing should fix python-poetry/poetry#7505, which makes it all seem a bit more worthwhile.

This first push deliberately doesn't include the fixes - I'm using the CI pipeline to do my windows testing and am hoping to see that the testcase that I've added fails, per that issue. Then I'll follow up with the changes that are supposed to fix it.

[gpongelli]

Hi,
I've tested this branch locally and I confirm this fixes python-poetry/poetry#7505 .

Steps I've done:

1. clone locally dimbleby's prefer-pathlib branch
2. clone locally poetry and checkout tag 1.4.0
3. change poetry's pyproject.toml to reference local folder , run poetry lock to obtain

[[package]]
name = "poetry-core"
version = "1.5.0"
...
[package.source]
type = "directory"
url = "../poetry-core"

4. run pipx.exe install --verbose --suffix=@loc .\poetry\
5. into the native extension project, I've run poetry@loc.exe build

Result:

• no UserWarning: Duplicate name: warning
• RECORD file does not have duplicated hashes

I'm on Windows 11 OS, powershell environment.

Please consider merging this branch ASAP for next poetry release, thank you.

[radoering]

I think we can include this in a patch release (and bump the required core version in the next poetry patch release). However, I don't want to remove any deprecation in a patch release (even if it is unlikely anybody still uses it). Do you mind if I drop the first commit in this PR? (You're welcome to create a deprecation removal PR for the next minor release if you like. There might be some more things that are deprecated for a long time.)

[dimbleby]

feel free to rearrange as you wish

(per opening remarks, I'd intended this series as more of a tidying-up sequence of commits rather than actually-fixes-something; it's mostly luck that it turns out to fix something that someone cares about)

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