[Distutils] Announcement: Pip 10 is coming, and will move all internal APIs

[Alex Grönholm]

Perhaps pkg_resources.find_distributions()?

http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html#getting-or-creating-distributions


Jannis Gebauer kirjoitti 20.10.2017 klo 16:55:
> Thanks for the heads-up, Paul.
>
> I’m currently using `pip.get_installed_distributions` and as far as I 
> can see that has moved into `_internal`, too: 
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/src/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py#L333
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jannis
>
>> On 20. Oct 2017, at 15:22, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> We're in the process of starting to plan for a release of pip (the
>> long-awaited pip 10). We're likely still a month or two away from a
>> release, but now is the time for people to start ensuring that
>> everything works for them. One key change in the new version will be
>> that all of the internal APIs of pip will no longer be available, so
>> any code that currently calls functions in the "pip" namespace will
>> break. Calling pip's internal APIs has never been supported, and
>> always carried a risk of such breakage, so projects doing so should,
>> in theory, be prepared for such things. However, reality is not always
>> that simple, and we are aware that people will need time to deal with
>> the implications.
>>
>> Just in case it's not clear, simply finding where the internal APIs
>> have moved to and calling them under the new names is *not* what
>> people should do. We can't stop people calling the internal APIs,
>> obviously, but the idea of this change is to give people the incentive
>> to find a supported approach, not just to annoy people who are doing
>> things we don't want them to ;-)
>>
>> So please - if you're calling pip's internals in your code, take the
>> opportunity *now* to check out the in-development version of pip, and
>> ensure your project will still work when pip 10 is released.
>>
>> And many thanks to anyone else who helps by testing out the new
>> version, as well :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
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