On 30 November 2012 09:38, Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging 1.0 documentation, > specifically http://guide.python-distribute.org/creation.html. I am > struggling to understand the section about Entry Points. This appears to be a > way to include extra functionality in a program, without the need to actually > include it in the tar.gz file. Or, as the website says: "[A] pretty easy and > simple way to allow other packages to register something > that you want to know. Extra plugins, extra render methods, extra > functionality > you want to register in your web application, etcetera." I find the code > examples hard to understand. I'd expect that it'd be steps like "in the > middle of the setup, download and unzip file xxxx.zip from website > http://blaaah.eu. How does this work?
There are currently a lot of problems with documentation for features available in setuptools/distribute/distutils2 and so on. The page you linked to certainly seems incomplete to me and the text concerning entry points seems to be lifted from here http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2010/01/06/zest-releaser-entry-points.html Try reading this http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#extending-and-reusing-distribute If that doesn't help then further questions are probably more appropiate on the distutils-sig mailing list http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Oscar _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
