Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 19 October 2017 at 12:16, Daniel Holth wrote: > We said "you won't have to install setuptools" but actually "you don't > have to use it" is good enough. If you had 2 pkg-resources implementations > running you might wind up scanning sys.path extra times... > True, but that's where Thomas's sug

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Daniel Holth
We said "you won't have to install setuptools" but actually "you don't have to use it" is good enough. If you had 2 pkg-resources implementations running you might wind up scanning sys.path extra times... On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, 20:53 Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 19 October 2017 at 04:18, Alex Grönhol

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 19 October 2017 at 04:18, Alex Grönholm wrote: > Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06: > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html? > highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources. > h

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:57 PM Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 October 2017 at 19:42, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 05:59 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > >> > I've always used the setuptools documentation as a reference. Are you > >> > suggesting moving that information to a different lo

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:18 PM Alex Grönholm wrote: > Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06: > > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata > > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 October 2017 at 19:42, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 05:59 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >> > I've always used the setuptools documentation as a reference. Are you >> > suggesting moving that information to a different location to >> > allow/encourage other tools to implement it a

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 05:59 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > I've always used the setuptools documentation as a reference. Are you > > suggesting moving that information to a different location to > > allow/encourage other tools to implement it as a standard? > > I've never used entry points myself (o

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Alex Grönholm
Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06: http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html?highlight=pkg_resources#creating-and-parsing It is not ver

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Daniel Holth
http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html?highlight=pkg_resources#creating-and-parsing It is not very complicated. It looks like the characters are m

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 October 2017 at 17:48, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Thomas Kluyver's message of 2017-10-18 15:52:00 +0100: >> We're increasingly using entry points in Jupyter to help integrate >> third-party components. This brings up a couple of things that I'd like >> to do: >> >> 1. Specification

Re: [Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Thomas Kluyver's message of 2017-10-18 15:52:00 +0100: > We're increasingly using entry points in Jupyter to help integrate > third-party components. This brings up a couple of things that I'd like > to do: > > 1. Specification > > As far as I know, there's no document describing th

[Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Kluyver
We're increasingly using entry points in Jupyter to help integrate third-party components. This brings up a couple of things that I'd like to do: 1. Specification As far as I know, there's no document describing the details of entry points; it's a de-facto standard established by setuptools. It s