[Distutils] A smaller step towards de-specializing setuptools/distutils

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 15:34:11 EDT 2015


On 29 October 2015 at 19:23, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> I also don’t want to base any standard on setuptools entry points because
>> they are not a standard (and if we did, the key should not mention pip at
>> all, pip shouldn’t be special cased any more than setuptools should).
>
>
> Well, it kind of is a standard thanks to Paul and zipapp:
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html#module-zipapp

Wait, what? That doesn't use setuptools entry points...

Paul


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