Replace pkg_resources with importlib.metadata (#971) #1032

Job	Run time
linters (3.9, ubuntu-latest)	1m 52s
Testing on Python 3.8 (ubuntu-latest)	1m 48s
Testing on Python 3.8 (macos-13)	3m 2s
Testing on Python 3.8 (windows-2019)	2m 7s
Testing on Python 3.9 (ubuntu-latest)	5m 5s
Testing on Python 3.9 (macos-13)	2m 1s
Testing on Python 3.9 (windows-2019)	7m 16s
Testing on Python 3.10 (ubuntu-latest)	1m 50s
Testing on Python 3.10 (macos-13)	2m 54s
Testing on Python 3.10 (windows-2019)	2m 34s
Testing on Python 3.11 (ubuntu-latest)	11m 56s
Testing on Python 3.11 (macos-13)	2m 56s
Testing on Python 3.11 (windows-2019)	3m 7s
Testing on Python 3.12 (ubuntu-latest)	1m 59s
Testing on Python 3.12 (macos-13)	3m 29s
Testing on Python 3.12 (windows-2019)	7m 17s
	1h 1m 13s

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