[Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
...
> Again I think the *needs* of unittest and distutils are different, so I
> wonder if a single system can usefully suit both our needs (let alone
> universally support other systems). Definitely an area worth exploring
> though.

Yes, even if they do if for different needs, both projects want to do
the same thing:
to be easily extensible by third party project.

If we can provide a generic tool for both unittest and distutils
extensions use cases,
that's great and that will probably be useful for other projects.

If we fail, I doubt we will ever have a generic plugin system in the stdlib.

But that worth trying I think, and having different use cases is good
for this imho