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Aspects plugins for the Open edX LMS and Studio

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Move on from deprecated pkg_resources api #81

Open farhan opened 2 months ago

farhan commented 2 months ago

Shift the code from pkg_resources to importlib.resources api

Migration guide: https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/migration.html Decision making story: https://github.com/openedx/XBlock/issues/676 Reference PR to take learning from: https://github.com/openedx/xblock-sdk/pull/350/files

Prerequisites:

Support of python 3.8 should be dropped. Relevant epic

Acceptance Criteria:

Make sure the repository is using xblock version 5.0.0 or above. Upgrade the version if required, preferably via the make upgrade command.
There should be no usage of pkg_resources in the repository
Test cases should be passed
XBlock should perform all of its functionality related to change (loading resources)

bmtcril commented 2 months ago

This is another one that's blocked until we do our Aspects v2 breaking changes, until then we still need to support 3.8 for named releases back to Nutmeg.