plugin development best practices

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
> I will search the archives. I am aware of the setuptools feature It is
> quite nice. But the documentation is not very clear on how to define
> "entry point groups" on the importing end, i.e. how to prepare a an
> application to accept plugins it doesn't even now exist.

The entry-points are just a method of discovery. Writing a plugin by
itself - if that is what you are talking about here - is usually done by
exposing a certain interface, and invoking some registration
functionality - after the plugin is discovered, that is.


Diez