On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:27 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > For something like Pyramid the main piece that's missing is support >> > for an entry_points like system. As Tarek and other have pointed out >> > the past, such a system could still be supported through a third-party >> > plugin system that works via setup hooks and custom metadata. I think >> > there was even a prototype for something like that at one point... >> >> 'packaging' will be powerful enough to copy entry_points.txt into the >> .dist-info directory as a resource. Python bug #11880. >> >> The existing entry points code has a plugin mechanism for itself that >> will make it easy to iterate over entry_points.txt in dist-info as >> well as egg-info directories. Just write that plugin and you should be >> good to go. Though you might have to install the plugin in an egg-info >> directory at first... > > > What plugin mechanism are you talking about here, specifically? > > For that matter, which "existing entry points code" are you talking about, > too? ;-)
Yeah, I'm a little confused by this too. Sure you could include an entry_points.txt in the dist-info. Though it's not clear to me that there's an entirely straightforward way to do this yet. I think some ideas have been tossed about for how to make it easier to include custom files in dist-info, but that there were no conclusions on that. Or maybe it already is easy and I'm just missing something. Then there would need to be some interface like pkg_resources.iter_entry_points() available to all software that relies on entry_points. This could be provided by the same plugin that adds entry_points.txt to dist-info. That plugin would have to be an installation requirement for any software that relies on it (as is setuptools for any package that currently uses entry_points, so I don't think that's such a hardship...) Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
