[Web-SIG] entry points, etc

[Ian Bicking]

Incidentally, something that would be nice with wsgiconfig is if we 
could all agree on how to specify things like entry points and objects. 
  Specifically Paste Deploy uses egg:Distribution#ep_name, and 
zc.buildout uses Distribution:ep_name.  And Paste Deploy defaults to 
ep_name=main while zc.buildout defaults to ep_name=default.

Paste Deploy uses "entry_point_type = object.name" when you aren't using 
an entry point, but I'd like to switch to just "object.name" with an 
optional "object.name [ep_type]".  This helps out those people who have 
some hangup with writing their own setup.py.  So having a clear way to 
distinguish between an object reference and an entry point reference 
would be ideal.  I still would prefer the entry points, as they make it 
easier to search the system for providing objects and easier to handle 
backward compatibility, but I don't have any reason to *require* entry 
points in my code generally.

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