v0.18.0

This minor update removes the runtime requirement on the setuptools package in favor of equivalent functionality that is in the standard library from python version 3.8 and onward. For python versions 3.7 and lower, we introduce the common importlib-metadata backport package.

Additional updates may be found below.

Updates / New Features

Dependencies

• Remove dependency on setuptool’s pkg_resources module. Taking the stance of bullet #5 in from Python’s Packaging User-guide with regards to getting this package’s version. The “needs to be installed” requirement from before is maintained.

• Added dependency on the importlib-metadata backport package for installations in environments that use python version less-than 3.8.

• Added ipython (and appropriately supporting version of jedi) as development dependencies. Minimum versioning is set to support python 3.6 (current versions follow NEP 29 and thus require python 3.7+).

Documentation

• Clarified plugin implementation entrypoint example to include setuptools setuptools.setup() function and setup.cfg file.

• Revisions from proof-reading.

Plugins

• Entry-point discovery functionality now uses importlib_metadata / importlib.metadata as appropriate for the version of python being used.

Testing

• Added terminal-output coverage report in the standard pytest config in the pyproject.toml file.

Fixes