importlib_metadata: Library to access the metadata for a Python package

Description

This is a backport package, supplying access to the functionality of importlib.metadata including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.

License

Apache Software License

Upstream Contact

• https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/

• http://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/

Type

standard

Dependencies

• $(PYTHON)

• zipp: A pathlib-compatible zipfile object wrapper

• typing_extensions: Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+

• $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

• tomli: A lil’ TOML parser

Version Information

package-version.txt:

6.0.0

install-requires.txt:

# According to https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/,
# 4.13 provides the features of Python 3.11 importlib.metadata
importlib_metadata >=4.13

Equivalent System Packages

conda:

$ conda install  importlib_metadata

void:

$ sudo xbps-install  python3-importlib_metadata

See https://repology.org/project/python:importlib-metadata/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution; see github issue #29023