[Distutils] [Web-SIG] Entry points and import maps (was Re: Scarecrow deployment config

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:26 PM 7/24/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>The actual syntax I'm going to end up with is:
>>       entry_points = {
>>           "wsgi.app_factories": [
>>               "feature1 = somemodule:somefunction",
>>               "feature2 = another.module:SomeClass [extra1,extra2]",
>>           ]
>>       }
>
>That seems weird to put the assignment inside a string, instead of:
>
>entry_points = {
>   'wsgi.app_factories': {
>     'app': 'somemodule:somefunction',
>   },
>}

It turned out that EntryPoint objects really want to know their 'name' for 
ease of use in various APIs, and it also made it really easy to do stuff 
like "map(EntryPoint.parse, lines)" to get a list of entry points from a 
list of lines.


>Also, is there any default name?

Huh?


>   Like for a package that distributes only one application.  Or these 
> just different spellings for the same thing?

I don't understand you.  The most minimal way to specify a single entry 
point in setup() is with:

     entry_points = """
         [groupname.here]
         entryname = some.thing:here
     """