adapt to new import.metadata.entry_points API #53
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This fixes a regression which prevents running OCR-D Browser on Python < 3.10 and >= 3.8.
The reason is an ill-conceived change in the importlib.metadata API: Starting with importlib_metadata>=5.0 (recently released), you can no longer directly use the old API, which directly accesses the dict from
entry_points()
. Alas, the new API is not available in native importlib.metadata for Python 3.8 and Python 3.9.There is a backport shim specifically for that problem, but I really resent that additional complication.
I therefore just switched to
importlib_metadata >= 3.6
and the new API throughout.