Hello I am making a separate email for this topic to make sure no one misses it. There are *many* benefits of adding entry points into Distutils. In fact, adding a plugin system in there, will help make the commands more extendable and therefore will help us in the long term to remove things out of Distutils. So any strong opinion against them ? If not, I'll add a section in PEP 376 - and the first use case I can see is having a pluggable way to extend the list of files contained in .egg-info. The work to be done would be to extract entry points from pkg_resources (the discovery work that consists of looking for entry_points.txt files will be covered by the APIs already described in that PEP) This is not hard. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org