On October 29, 2015 at 2:54:19 PM, Daniel Holth (dho...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I think that would be very handy, especially making setuptools not a
> special case. You could get it down to 3 lines in setup.cfg, a file that
> already exists and already gathers random settings.
>  
> <snip>

I don’t think we should try to use an entry point (at least not yet). One of 
the key points is to minimize the conceptual churn and to move forward slowly 
while still progressing. I don’t think that using a class really buys us much 
because anyone who is capable of writing that class is also capable of writing 
a small CLI interface to be used within a setup.py. It feels more like churn 
for churn’s sake than anything else and some sort of idealogical purity over 
pragmatism.

I also don’t want to base any standard on setuptools entry points because they 
are not a standard (and if we did, the key should not mention pip at all, pip 
shouldn’t be special cased any more than setuptools should).

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Donald Stufft
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