Re: [Python-Dev] Packaging and setuptools compatibility

2012-01-25 Thread PJ Eby
2012/1/24 Alexis Métaireau > Entrypoints basically are a plugin system. They are storing information in > the metadata and then retrieving them when needing them. The problem with > this, as everything when trying to get information from metadata is that we > need to parse all the metadata for al

Re: [Python-Dev] Packaging and setuptools compatibility

2012-01-24 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Alexis Métaireau wrote: > I'm wondering if we should support that (a way to have plugins) in the new > packaging thing, or not. If not, this mean we should come with another > solution to support this outside of packaging (may be in distribute). If yes, > then we s

[Python-Dev] Packaging and setuptools compatibility

2012-01-24 Thread Alexis Métaireau
Hi folks, I have this in my mind since a long time, but I didn't talked about that on this list, was only writing on distutils@ or another list we had for distutils2 (the fellowship of packaging). AFAIK, we're almost good about packaging in python 3.3, but there is still something that keeps