[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

[Donald Stufft]

On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:31 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> Personally, I'm very happy to see Vinay's extensions, because they are
> IMO important validations of whether the new specs are likely to be
> useful for replacing all of setuptools' functionality.  There are
> people who need to mount eggs and have their extensions run, so if it
> wasn't possible to build tools that support them under the new specs
> (whether that support is required by the spec or not), that would
> still be a reason to use setuptools -- meaning, IMO, that the new spec
> effort is failing to create a unified packaging world.

I'm perfectly happy that he was able (and did) write those extensions, I
was one of the people who wanted metadata 2.0 to be extensible for
exactly that purpose. None of my arguments were against any particular
feature.

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Donald Stufft
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