At 07:18 PM 7/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
So is PEP 376 going to be able to cope with the stuff I have installed at the moment? If not, what's the point???
If I understand Tarek's proposal correctly, then no, it will not cope.
Why that ? Can you detail ? On a system that uses only plain distutils distributions, it'll work.
Paul's question, as I understood it, was whether pkgutil would handle the existing .egg-info's. Your proposal, as I understood it, was that pkgutil would not detect .egg-info's without a plugin of some sort... and you've not proposed a way of loading such a thing, which means that to use pkgutil with that plugin, an application would have to know that the plugin exists and import it.
Unless you're planning to have a plugin registration facility (ala entry points) so that plugins can be used without each application needing to discover them on its own?