[Python-Dev] PEP 376 proposed changes for basic plugins support

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is dealing with name conflicts left up to the application?

When an application iterates on the plugins that are supposely built
for it, it will probably expect a single type of object. For instance
unitest2 will want classes that are overriding its Plugin base class.
So it should be able to drop objects that are not compliant with its
system.

Now, since the distutils id at PyPI is unique, using it for the
application name in the plugin like I proposed,
should also help preventing this issue.