[Distutils] entry points

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 05:21 PM 7/24/2007 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> Why do entry point values use a colon to separate the module from the
>> callable?
>
> First off, an entry point need not be callable in the general  
> case.  Classes and arbitrary data structures can be entry points,  
> too.  Heck, Chandler parcel entry points are just a module name.

Fair enough.  That wasn't entirely evident from the documentation,  
but maybe I wasn't looking in the right place or didn't grok what I  
was reading. ;)

By now I've gotten my first plugin to work, and it's really quite  
awesome.  Between setuptools and zope.interface, I'm just very  
psyched that I now have a principled and standard way of providing  
extensibility for my application.

One thing I think will have to be done at some point is to  
consolidate all the documentation on the telecommunity site.  I find  
myself with three open browser tabs (setuptools, PkgResources, and  
EasyInstall).  There's /a lot/ of information there.  I vote the PSF  
pays for a tech writer to put it all together into a single cohesive  
manual.

Thanks for the explanation regarding the choice of ':'.  I suspected  
you had a good reason for it. :)

- -Barry


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