DeprecationWarning: Use of .. or absolute paths will raise exceptions...

[Justintime50]

When PYTHONWARNINGS=always is set, I get the following from the pkg_resources library:

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:1151: DeprecationWarning: 
Use of .. or absolute path in a resource path is not allowed and will raise exceptions in a future 
release.
  self, resource_name

We'll need to adjust the relative path to the VERSION file in the near future to avoid throwing exceptions on each call. The offending code is in version.py:

VERSION_FILE = pkg_resources.resource_stream('easypost', '../VERSION')

[Roguelazer]

We probably just need to stop doing the stupid VERSION file trick and make the version a literal in setup.py and __init__.py. The only reason we didn't was because an earlier author of this project was strongly opposed to duplicating that single line.