[Distutils] Script processing plugins?

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Okay, so after today's discussions I'm still not really clear on how 
> path freezing (baking, whatever) should work for standalone setuptools.  
> Would it solve the problem for your use cases if I provided an option 
> like "--script-wrappers=plugin1,plugin2,...", where the plugin names are 
> entry points that would get a chance to modify the contents of generated 
> scripts?  That way, you guys could experiment freely with your 
> script-wrapping strategies without having to monkeypatch.  And any tools 
> that you build which wrap easy_install can simply add the necessary 
> setting(s) to an appropriate .cfg file.

It seems weird to modify the contents of the scripts.  Can't they just 
get passed the name of the egg and entry point, and return the full 
script?  You couldn't have multiple wrappers, but compatible wrappers 
seem unlikely anyway.

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