[Distutils] Adding entry points into Distutils ?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue May 5 03:03:11 CEST 2009


Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> writes:

> There are *many* benefits of adding entry points into Distutils. In
> fact, adding a plugin system in there, will help make the commands
> more extendable and therefore will help us in the long term to remove
> things out of Distutils.

I don't see what those advantages are. From what I can see, commands
still need to be implemented in separate programs in order to be used as
commands.

> So any strong opinion against them ?

Until I understand what they do, I don't know what objections I might
have :-)

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