At 10:38 AM 5/7/2009 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
pip installs my scripts into a virtualenv without any issue and without using entry points, AFAICT.
I guess if we move to requiring entry points and disallowing simple script distribution I'll need to find another way to package virtualenvwrapper. Since it's a bash script, it doesn't have entry points. I've been using setuptools to package it so it can be installed via easy_install, since it is a Python development tool.
Setuptools still supports "classic" scripts, and I don't see any reason to remove that support. People do package non-Python scripts with their projects, after all. easy_install basically examines such scripts to see if they end with .py, have a #! line with 'python' in it, or are valid Python source code. If any of the above are true, it makes a Python script wrapper, otherwise it assumes the script is some other language and leaves it alone.