Remove runtime usage of pkg_resources.

This should provide a startup time speed boost at the expense of making
it harder to get ansible to use newer versions of packages than are
provided by the platform.

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/bin/ansible b/bin/ansible
index cc4bfd7a694..cd83e9a4131 100755
--- a/bin/ansible
+++ b/bin/ansible
@@ -22,15 +22,7 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 __requires__ = ['ansible']
-try:
-    import pkg_resources
-except Exception:
-    # Use pkg_resources to find the correct versions of libraries and set
-    # sys.path appropriately when there are multiversion installs.  But we
-    # have code that better expresses the errors in the places where the code
-    # is actually used (the deps are optional for many code paths) so we don't
-    # want to fail here.
-    pass
+
 
 import os
 import shutil
diff --git a/bin/ansible-connection b/bin/ansible-connection
index ac378a4d872..a06adcfc3b7 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-connection
+++ b/bin/ansible-connection
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 __requires__ = ['ansible']
 
-try:
-    import pkg_resources
-except Exception:
-    pass
 
 import fcntl
 import hashlib