Re: [Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-03-05 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Fred Drake wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:41 AM, zooko wrote: > >> And this morning I just noticed the "keywords" field in the > >> metadata. Perhaps the setuptools docs could encourage authors o

Re: [Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-03-05 Thread zooko
On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Fred Drake wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:41 AM, zooko wrote: >> And this morning I just noticed the "keywords" field in the >> metadata. Perhaps the setuptools docs could encourage authors of >> setuptools plugins to put the keyword "plugin" into their keywords? > >

Re: [Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-01-28 Thread Fred Drake
On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:41 AM, zooko wrote: > And this morning I just noticed the "keywords" field in the > metadata. Perhaps the setuptools docs could encourage authors of > setuptools plugins to put the keyword "plugin" into their keywords? Another option, for which there's precedent, is to defin

Re: [Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Peterson
zooko wrote: > Following up to my own post: > > On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:17 PM, zooko wrote: > >> One idea that I had was to run a query on the Python Package Index >> database to find all packages whose setup.py's define entry points in >> the "distutils.commands" group name. >> >> Another was to

Re: [Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-01-28 Thread zooko
Following up to my own post: On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:17 PM, zooko wrote: > One idea that I had was to run a query on the Python Package Index > database to find all packages whose setup.py's define entry points in > the "distutils.commands" group name. > > Another was to put the word out (i.e. in t

[Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

2008-01-27 Thread zooko
Folks: The setuptools plugins architecture may eventually supplant Makefiles in my projects. It's very nice that people can re-use other people's development hacks as packages containing setuptools plugins instead of by cutting and pasting snippets of code into their Makefiles. It would