[Distutils] wanted: a catalog of setuptools plugins

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Mon Jan 28 15:41:37 CET 2008


Following up to my own post:

On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:17 PM, zooko wrote:

> One idea that I had was to run a query on the Python Package Index
> database to find all packages whose setup.py's define entry points in
> the "distutils.commands" group name.
>
> Another was to put the word out (i.e. in the setuptools
> documentation) that if your package is a setuptools plugin, that you
> should name your package "setuptools_blah_blah" and register it on
> the Python Package Index.

And this morning I just noticed the "keywords" field in the  
metadata.  Perhaps the setuptools docs could encourage authors of  
setuptools plugins to put the keyword "plugin" into their keywords?

Regards,

Zooko



More information about the Distutils-SIG mailing list