Add better support for packages with files outside site-packages

[dan-blanchard]

This should fix #455. I slightly modified the patch suggested by @jaraco in https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/455#issuecomment-1837571288 so that we don't have to call self.locate_file('').resolve() for name in text.splitlines(), and fixed one type complaint I was getting locally.

I'm not sure if the test I added works properly (which is one of the reasons I made this PR), because I'm running into a weird tox issue locally.

[dan-blanchard]

The "weird tox issue" turns out to be an issue with pytest-perf, I think.

I keep getting errors like:

E           subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/mambaforge/base/envs/py312importlib/bin/python3.12', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '-t', PosixPath('/var/folders/vz/khc_rx815vv9rhbclb1bl2hc0000gn/T/pip-run-x6yeau2d'), 'importlib_metadata.git[perf]@git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git')' returned non-zero exit status 1.

/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/mambaforge/base/envs/py312importlib/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py:413: CalledProcessError
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Captured stderr call -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'importlib_metadata.git[perf]@git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git'
Hint: It looks like a path. File 'importlib_metadata.git[perf]@git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git' does not exist.

when trying to run tests locally.

[jaraco]

Invalid requirement: 'importlib_metadata.git[perf]@git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git'

You may want to report this issue to pytest-perf. I notice that importlib_metadata.git[perf] should be importlib_metadata[perf], and probably what's happening is the plugin is inferring the package name from the upstream URL, but since you're using the SSH form which may (or may not) expect the .git suffix.

That's one of the reasons I avoid the SSH protocol - because it tends to add noise like .git to URLs.

Trying to install it without the package name, I still get the same error:

 @ pip-run git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git
ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git'
Hint: It looks like a path. File 'git+git@github.com:dan-blanchard/importlib_metadata.git' does not exist.

Perhaps it's the case that the syntax pip expects is different than what git supplies. Indeed, the pip docs indicate that the URL should be git+ssh://, so probably pytest-perf needs to add support for translating a git remote to a pip URL for SSH remotes.

If you want to work around the issue, you can use an https remote (e.g. git clone https://github.com/$(username)/importlib_metadata).

Let me see if I can resolve the conflicts and get the tests running again.

[jaraco]

Thanks for this. Looks like it's pretty close.

I'm a little concerned that this change introduces more reliance on the assumption that the package is on disk, when it could be in a zip file or elsewhere.

[dan-blanchard]

I believe all the test failures were mypy related so I added a cast() to fix/silence it.

[jaraco]

The issue with pytest-perf supporting SSH URLs was addressed in https://github.com/jaraco/pytest-perf/issues/15.

[jaraco]

Released as v7.2.1.