[Distutils] Entry points: specifying and caching

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, at 05:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I'm wondering if rather than jumping straight to a PEP, it may make
> sense to instead initially pursue this idea as a *non-*standard,
> implementation dependent thing specific to the "entrypoints" project.
> There are a *lot* of challenges to be taken into account for a truly
> universal metadata caching design, and it would be easy to fall into
> the trap of coming up with a design so complex that nobody can
> realistically implement it.
I'd be happy to tackle it like that. Donald's proposed hooks for package
installation and uninstallation would provide all the necessary
interoperation between different tools. As and when it's working, the
cache format can be documented for other consumers to use.
> Right now, the only documented publishing API for that pub/sub channel
> is setuptools.setup(), and the only documented subscription API is
> pkg_resources. Documenting the file format explicitly changes that
> dynamic, such that any publisher that produces a compliant
> `entry_points.txt` file will be supported by pkg_resources, and any
> consumer that can read a compliant `entry_points.txt` file will be
> supported by setuptools.setup()
Yup, this is very much what I'd like :-)

Thanks,
Thomas
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