On Oct 20, 2017, at 8:23 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:On 20 October 2017 at 22:10, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:If I could guess, I’d say it hasn’t changed in years because setuptools has had bigger things to work on and not enough time to do it in.Then you'd be wrong - it hasn't changed in years because it's a sensible, simple solution to the problem of declaring integration points between independently distributed pieces of software that allows the installed integration points to be listed *without* importing the software providing them (unlike most import based plugin systems).