[Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

[Daniel Holth]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:18 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
wrote:

> Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06:
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> http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata
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> http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html?highlight=pkg_resources#creating-and-parsing
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> It is not very complicated. It looks like the characters are mostly
> 'python identifier' rules with a little bit of 'package name' rules.
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> I am also concerned about the amount of parsing on startup. A hard problem
> for certain, since no one likes outdated cache problems either. It is also
> unpleasant to have too much code with a runtime dependency on 'packaging'.
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> Wasn't someone working on implementing pkg_resources in the standard
> library at some point?
>

I'm just saying it is good to avoid importing it unless you really need to.
Same reason we removed it from entry point script wrappers.
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