DeprecationWarning associated with pkg_resources

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

Problem

The following DeprecationWarnings exists on importing maggma.

/home/rosen/software/miniconda/envs/quacc/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maggma/__init__.py:2: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
    from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution

Proposed Solution

Use of pkg_resources is deprecated in favor of importlib.resources, importlib.metadata and their backports (importlib_resources, importlib_metadata). Some useful APIs are also provided by packaging (e.g. requirements and version parsing). Users should refrain from new usage of pkg_resources and should work to port to importlib-based solutions.

Alternatives

No response