[Distutils] PEP 426: proposed change to extension fields + entry points

[Daniel Holth]

I can accept a rename but there is no way to avoid having 2 names not 1 new
name for the feature.

We go halfway now. The next version can go any other way.
On Feb 25, 2013 12:23 PM, "Vinay Sajip" <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The other area where I think such an "embedded JSON" approach could
> > work is coming up with a clean format for an Entry-Points field.
> > Specifically, I am thinking of proposing the setuptools.setup
> > inspired:
> >
> >     Entry-Points: {
> >         "console_scripts": {
> >             "foo": "my_package.some_module:main_func",
> >             "bar": "other_module:some_func"
> >         },
> >         "gui_scripts": {
> >             "baz": "my_package_gui.start_func"
> >         }
> >     }
> >
>
> What is the reason for this half-way-house, rather than going straight to
> JSON?
> I suppose one could argue backward compatibility, but since we are moving
> quite
> a distance from a plain old key-value here, we may as well embrace JSON
> properly.
> Perhaps we should embrace the dict rather than any specific file format,
> as I
> did with dictConfig in logging.
>
> Note that distlib already supports entry points, though these are called
> "exports" because they may or may not be callable code. (The name "exports"
> was suggested by PJE and, IMO, is better/more general than "entry points").
>
> For example, for Babel-0.9.6:
>
>   "exports": {
>     "babel.extractors": [
>       "ignore = babel.messages.extract:extract_nothing",
>       "python = babel.messages.extract:extract_python",
>       "javascript = babel.messages.extract:extract_javascript"
>     ],
>     "distutils.commands": [
>       "compile_catalog = babel.messages.frontend:compile_catalog",
>       "extract_messages = babel.messages.frontend:extract_messages",
>       "init_catalog = babel.messages.frontend:init_catalog",
>       "update_catalog = babel.messages.frontend:update_catalog"
>     ],
>     "babel.checkers": [
>       "num_plurals = babel.messages.checkers:num_plurals",
>       "python_format = babel.messages.checkers:python_format"
>     ],
>     "distutils.setup_keywords": [
>       "message_extractors =
> babel.messages.frontend:check_message_extractors"
>     ],
>     "scripts": {
>       "console": [
>         "pybabel = babel.messages.frontend:main"
>       ]
>     }
>   }
>
> This is currently used, for example, in distlib's script generation logic
> (for
> example, to generate the pybabel script for Babel).
>
> Regards,
>
> Vinay Sajip
>
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