community.general/changelogs/fragments/drop-pkg_resources.yaml

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minor_changes:
  - Drop the use of pkg_resources.  Importing pkg_resources was the costliest
    part of startup time for Ansible.  pkg_resources was used so that platforms
    with old versions of PyCrypto and Jinja2 could use parallel installed,
    updated versions.  Since we no longer support Python-2.6 on the controller
    side, we no longer have to support parallel installation to work around
    those old stacks.
Remove runtime usage of pkg_resources. This should provide a startup time speed boost at the expense of making it harder to get ansible to use newer versions of packages than are provided by the platform. 2018-09-07 21:14:46 +02:00			`---`
			`minor_changes:`
			`- Drop the use of pkg_resources. Importing pkg_resources was the costliest`
			`part of startup time for Ansible. pkg_resources was used so that platforms`
			`with old versions of PyCrypto and Jinja2 could use parallel installed,`
			`updated versions. Since we no longer support Python-2.6 on the controller`
			`side, we no longer have to support parallel installation to work around`
			`those old stacks.`