[Distutils] svn tagging setuptools command

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Aug 29 00:01:46 CEST 2005


At 03:07 PM 8/28/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I don't know if setup.py is the right frontend for all of these.  One
>specific issue is that one command creates the basic framework of a
>package, including a setup.py file.  But maybe setuptools could be
>extended to support two kinds of entry points: one that is applied
>globally (what it currently has), and one that is applied only on demand
>(for framework-specific commands).

My thought is that at some point (0.7?) setuptools will have a 'nest' 
script that runs general-purpose commands, and it will have its own entry 
point group for commands to install, list, uninstall, etc.



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