Is the `ez_setup.py` still relevant?

[dragondive]

Hello folks,

First of all, thank you so much for building this Q&A software, which is SO easy to setup and use.

Last week, I set out to deal with the pkg_resources deprecation warning from setuptools that shows up when starting the server. In the process, I somehow ended up making askbot compatible with Python 3.12 (I think).

The code ez_setup.py also refers to pkg_resources. However, I realized that it wasn't functional (without my changes). Moreover, I examined the code and from what I understand, it's functionality has been superseded by pip anyway.

However, I do not know the full story of why it was originally created. Hence, I'd like to confirm if this is still needed?

Thanks.

[evgenyfadeev]

the ez_setup.py can be removed, provided that the installation procedure works as documented, thank you! Do tests pass with python 3.12? Thank you!

[dragondive]

Thank you @evgenyfadeev. Indeed the installation works very well as documented, and the tests also pass on both 3.11 and 3.12. (I see you already merged my previous PR some days ago where I added 3.12 to the workflow matrix.)

I have now created a new PR to retire ez_setup.py.