Re: [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

2009-10-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/9 Chris Withers : > Why not get it into the core as distutils.entrypoints? That's where it > belongs... Well, one reason is that it can't be distributed separately under that name, and hence not be tested separately or bugfixed separately. Rule #1 for inclusion in the standard library is

Re: [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > > Shame there hasn't been any discussion of this recently on distutils-sig... We had many discussion on this already. I don't mind to have another round, on the contrary, but let's do it in Distutils-SIG We are making a lot of noise now in P

Re: [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: - distribute.entrypoints: that's the old pkg_resources entry points system, but on its own. it uses distribute.resources Why not get it into the core as distutils.entrypoints? That's where it belongs... What do you call 'core' ? distutils.core ? Sorry, mean stdlib. distu

Re: [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> - The code is splitted in many packages and might be distributed under >> several distributions. >> >>   - distribute.resources: that's the old pkg_resources... > Why not just call it pkg_resources and/or merge it wit

Re: [Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: - The code is splitted in many packages and might be distributed under several distributions. - distribute.resources: that's the old pkg_resources, but reorganized in clean, pep-8 modules. This package will only contain the query APIs and will focus on being PEP 376 co