I am impressed with Bazaar's implementation of plugins: a Python plugin is simply copied to a ./bazaar/plugin/<my-plugin> directory and the plugin is recognized by Bazaar and can be run from CLI as:
bzr <my-plugin> I would like to implement something similar in my Finite Element Method program, so that any user can write certain element properties (in a predetermined format) to use with the program. The references that I looked at seem to use "distutils" as part of the plugin installation. Would you recommend to go in that direction? Any other good references? BTW, the FEM program is currently designed to solve Engineering structure analysis with the implemented elements for beams (frame members) or truss members for 2D structures and also trusses in 3D structures. OldAl PS: Trust me, I am really, really old... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list