[Distutils] Adding entry points into Distutils ?

[David Lyon]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 01:46:21 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am making a separate email for this topic to make sure no one misses
it.
> 
> There are *many* benefits of adding entry points into Distutils. In
> fact, adding a plugin system in there,
> will help make the commands more extendable and therefore will help us
> in the long term to remove things
> out of Distutils.
> 
> So any strong opinion against them ?

but what does it provide that we don't already get with the site-packages
directory? and .PTH?

isn't there already a plug-in system for packages in python?

David