@aloof-angle-91616: re https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/issues/729: is there no solution possible by explicitly including a setuptools dep when depending on bigquery?

the setuptools dep is what's used, the issue is that it doesn't have the distributions registered with it, so when the import occurs and the bigquery package calls

pkg_resources.get_distribution("google-cloud-bigquery").version

, it fails

is @average-vr-56795 picking this part up as well? or are you going to continue investigating today and hand off tomorrow?

i'm making #729 into a PR, then making it possible for @average-vr-56795 to decide whether that approach or the pants workaround with

prepend_to_pythonpath

is appropriate

sounds good. thank you.

i'm also then responding to his comments on the other release blocker PR so that can be merged today or tomorrow in london