venv and packages with entry points

[Calvin Spealman]

Each virtual environment has its own bin/ directory and when activated its
bin/ is in your $PATH

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 1:45 PM <c.buhtz at posteo.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I try to get it onto my head how virtual environments (via venv) works
> when I have packages with "entry points".
>
> I can define such entry points in the setup.cfg like this (full example
> [1]):
>
> [options.entry_points]
> console_scripts =
>      hyperorg = hyperorg.__main__:main
>
> When I install such a package via pip the result is a shell script in
> /usr/bin/...
>
> What happens when I install such a package with an entry point via "pip
> install ." when an virtual environment is activated?
>
> Kind
> Christian
>
> [1] --
> <https://codeberg.org/buhtz/hyperorg/src/branch/develop/setup.cfg>
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