Release 0.2.0 bug: get project name from entree point

[woutdenolf]

Release 0.2.0 bug: get project name from entree point

[markotoplak]

See biolab/orange3#6655 for more info.

[woutdenolf]

Seems like there are several places where this can occur:

orange-canvas-core/orangecanvas/registry/discovery.py

Line 213 in 124c559

cat_desc.project_name = distribution.name

orange-canvas-core/orangecanvas/registry/discovery.py

Line 352 in 124c559

desc.project_name = distribution.name

orange-canvas-core/orangecanvas/registry/discovery.py

Line 372 in 124c559

project_name = distribution.name

orange-canvas-core/orangecanvas/registry/discovery.py

Line 415 in 124c559

if entry.project_name != distribution.name or \

[woutdenolf]

The distribution variable seems to be of type pkg_resources.DistInfoDistribution which does not have a name attribute.

[woutdenolf]

Problem seems to be this commit: 488f691#diff-8a4d7e657dbf9ce778437786cf1a4cfb7df551c2faf7792be0b7cd65ff191587

Ping @ales-erjavec

[woutdenolf]

When running the tests of this project the distribution variable type is importlib.metadata.PathDistribution which does have a name attribute.

However when getting the distribution from an entry point (not covered by the unit test but happens in reality) you get distribution variable type pkg_resources.DistInfoDistribution which does not have a name attribute (called project_name instead).

[woutdenolf]

In fact the issue lies in some of our projects:

1. https://gitlab.esrf.fr/tomotools/tomwer/-/blob/main/orangecontrib/tomwer/widgets/__init__.py?ref_type=heads
2. https://gitlab.esrf.fr/workflow/ewoks/ewoksorange/-/blob/main/src/ewoksorange/canvas/config.py?ref_type=heads

So this is not a bug but a breaking change for addons that define widget_discovery (similar to https://github.com/biolab/orange3/blob/master/Orange/widgets/__init__.py).

[markotoplak]

@woutdenolf, yes, orange-canvas-core 0.2.0 is indeed also incompatible with the current master of Orange (which depended on orange-canvas-core<0.2 for a long time now.