[Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

[Donald Stufft]

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> 
> Having the packaging
> system register those services at installation time (even if it doesn't
> care otherwise about them) seems pretty reasonable to me.

It does register them at installation time, using an entirely generic feature of “you can add any file you want to a dist-info directory and we will preserve it”. It doesn’t need to know anything else about them other then it’s a file that needs preserved.
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