At 08:32 AM 3/25/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
Sometimes it also happens that, once one such build/packaging systems is adopted, it is difficult to switch to using another one, since apps (... and plugins systems ...) are frequently hard-coupled to the pkg sys «exotic features» and support (... what comes to my mind right now is Trac plugins which are a little bit dependant on setuptools entry points and so on ...).
Please note that entry points are not coupled to easy_install. They have a documented file format and API that's *distributed* with setuptools, but is not dependent on it and does not require .egg files, either. There's nothing stopping an independent implementation in the stdlib, ala PEP 376's metadata API, which is designed to be backward compatible with setuptools. It could be extended to support entry points as well.
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