[Distutils] API for finding plugins

[Kevin Dangoor]

On 2/7/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> My question at this point is, is this algorithm sane?  For example, is it
> reasonable to fall back to older versions of plugins in the case of missing
> dependencies or version conflicts, or would it be better to just disable
> those plugins altogether?  I can also imagine that some environments might
> want to have the option of "failing safe" by switching back to a known-good
> prior configuration, or else failing altogether, rather than have arbitrary
> drops or version fallbacks.

To date, I've just been hunting among the installed packages for
things that satisfy particular entry points. I'm not certain I
understand the intersection between plugins here and entry points. (If
this is already documented in the setuptools documentation, feel free
to say that...)

Kevin