[Distutils] Adding entry points into Distutils ?

[Doug Hellmann]

On May 7, 2009, at 7:28 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:

> At 10:38 AM 5/7/2009 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> pip installs my scripts into a virtualenv without any issue and
>> without using entry points, AFAICT.
>>
>> I guess if we move to requiring entry points and disallowing simple
>> script distribution I'll need to find another way to package
>> virtualenvwrapper.  Since it's a bash script, it doesn't have entry
>> points.  I've been using setuptools to package it so it can be
>> installed via easy_install, since it is a Python development tool.
>
> Setuptools still supports "classic" scripts, and I don't see any  
> reason to remove that support.  People do package non-Python scripts  
> with their projects, after all.
>
> easy_install basically examines such scripts to see if they end  
> with .py, have a #! line with 'python' in it, or are valid Python  
> source code.  If any of the above are true, it makes a Python script  
> wrapper, otherwise it assumes the script is some other language and  
> leaves it alone.

That would do what I want.  I only brought it up because another  
poster in this thread mentioned eliminating "scripts" an requiring  
console apps to use entry points.