[Distutils] pkg_resources API use according to Nullege search engine

[Vinay Sajip]

> 

> Of course it's not really a mystery; a tremendous number of Apis only accept 
> a file name. That's why it's there. And only something well connected to 
> the importer system knows how and whether the extraction is needed.
>

Why is that the case? If the bytes are available, then whoever needs can
write them to a temp file, pass that name, and clean up afterwards. Is
managing a cache of arbitrary files extracted from zips is a mainstream use
case which distlib needs to support?

Regards,

Vinay Sajip