Got rid of require_pkgresources()

Setuptools will now always be present so this is pointless. The pkg_resources module was never imported here anyway.

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/wheel/cli/__init__.py b/src/wheel/cli/__init__.py
index 31ac4c8..e41cce5 100644
--- a/src/wheel/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/src/wheel/cli/__init__.py
@@ -7,13 +7,6 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 
-def require_pkgresources(name):
-    try:
-        import pkg_resources  # noqa: F401
-    except ImportError:
-        raise RuntimeError(f"'{name}' needs pkg_resources (part of setuptools).")
-
-
 class WheelError(Exception):
     pass
 
diff --git a/src/wheel/cli/convert.py b/src/wheel/cli/convert.py
index a4bec18..90afad3 100755
--- a/src/wheel/cli/convert.py
+++ b/src/wheel/cli/convert.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from setuptools.dist import Distribution
 
 from ..bdist_wheel import bdist_wheel
 from ..wheelfile import WheelFile
-from . import WheelError, require_pkgresources
+from . import WheelError
 
 egg_info_re = re.compile(
     r"""
@@ -253,9 +253,6 @@ def wininst2wheel(path, dest_dir):
 
 
 def convert(files, dest_dir, verbose):
-    # Only support wheel convert if pkg_resources is present
-    require_pkgresources("wheel convert")
-
     for pat in files:
         for installer in iglob(pat):
             if os.path.splitext(installer)[1] == ".egg":