Finished release 0.68.

brian_dashboard_manager/environment.py

 import json
 import logging.config
 import os
-from importlib.metadata import distribution
 import sentry_sdk
 from sentry_sdk.integrations.flask import FlaskIntegration
 
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import distribution as get_distribution
+except ImportError:
+    from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+
 
 def setup_logging():
     """
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ def setup_logging():
         sentry_sdk.init(
             dsn=sentry_dsn,
             integrations=[FlaskIntegration()],
-            release=distribution('brian-dashboard-manager').version)
+            release=get_distribution('brian-dashboard-manager').version)
 
     with open(filename) as f:
         # TODO: this mac workaround should be removed ...

brian_dashboard_manager/routes/version.py

-from importlib.metadata import distribution
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import distribution as get_distribution
+except ImportError:
+    from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+
 from flask import Blueprint, jsonify
 from brian_dashboard_manager.routes import common
 
@@ -17,6 +21,6 @@ def version():
     version_params = {
         'api': API_VERSION,
         'module':
-            distribution('brian-dashboard-manager').version
+            get_distribution('brian-dashboard-manager').version
     }
     return jsonify(version_params)

changelog.md

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [0.68] - 2024-10-31
+- Add in use of pkg_resources for old versions of python
+
 ## [0.67] - 2024-10-14
 - Fix provisioning of static EUMETSAT dashboard
 - Give the EUMETSAT dashboard a fixed UID

setup.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='brian-dashboard-manager',
-    version="0.67",
+    version="0.68",
     author='GEANT',
     author_email='swd@geant.org',
     description='',