You're gonna have a hard time convincing me that any import of `pkg_resources` is the right thing to do.  That code is a frigging mess and introduces all manner of complexity into namespaces that aren't necessary.  If you were to go back through the Armstrong code history, you'd see a point two falls ago where I went through all of the packages and ripped out every `pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)` call to avoid that.