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

[Paul Moore]

2009/10/9 Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com>:
> 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.

+1. It seems to me that pkgutil is the right place in the core for
most of the "general utility" aspects of setuptools.

Paul.