[Distutils] Adding entry points into Distutils ?

[Sebastien Binet]

hi,

> That allows people to create their own plugins in separate packages,
> and use them by tweaking the configuration
> file. The only think that entry point provided here is an automatic
> registration at installation time of the "rss" plugins,
> so my Atomisatior application can discover then load it at run time.
>
> So in your way of seeing thing, you'd rather see this registration
> mechanism at the application level,
> but the you need to provide specific installation instructions for
> people that want to add plugins.
> e.g. "put your package in this /plugins directory" for example.

wouldn't this be tackled by providing a plugin-discoverer plugin ?
kind of like the new import hooks of pep-302 [1]  where you have module 
finders separated from module loaders, or like this library I have been using 
in my field [2]

cheers,
sebastien.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302/
[2] http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/865639?ln=pl
      http://wlav.web.cern.ch/wlav/pybus/index.html
      http://seal.cvs.cern.ch:80/cgi-bin/seal.cgi/seal/Scripting/PyBus
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