On Oct 20, 2017, at 1:32 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

3. Unlike setup.cfg & pyproject.toml, actual humans never touch it - it's written and read solely by software

This is wrong BTW, humans can and do effectively write entry_points.txt, it’s a supported feature of setuptools to do:

setuptools.setup(

entry_points=“””

[my_cool_entrypoint]

athing = the.thing:bar

“””,

)

This is documented and I have run into a number of projects that do this.