On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> PJE is correct that if we surprise people with non-pkg_resources >> console_scripts then we will break things for people who are more >> interested in a working packaging experience. > > Do you mean that you think multiple versions have to be supported, and that's > why console scripts should remain pkg_resources - dependent? > > If you don't think that multiple version support is needed, then the non- > pkg_resources versions of the script should be able to locate the function to > call from the script, assuming it can import the module. Are you saying that > the import or function call will fail, because the distribution didn't > reference setuptools as a dependency, and yet expects it to be there? > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig I think the point is that people might be dependent on this functionality and changing it out from underneath them could break their world. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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