[Distutils] [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 19:24:14 CEST 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> distutils.entrypoints would seem to be the sensible place.

Why's that?  On the whole, I don't think entry points are specific to
building & bundling, which is what distutils is all about.

Entry points are about packages being able to provide metadata about
how parts of them can be used.  I'd rather see a pkgutil.entrypoint
module with APIs for this.


  -Fred

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