On 19 July 2013 01:03, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Abstract > > This PEP proposes a way to represent the setuptools “entry points” > feature in standard Python metadata. Entry points are a useful > mechanism for advertising or discovering plugins or other exported > functionality without having to depend on the module namespace. Since > the feature is used by many existing Python distributions and not > everyone wants to use setuptools, it is useful to have a way to > represent the functionality that is not tied to setuptools itself. > > The proposed feature defines an extension field for the standard > Python distribution metadata and some basic semantics for its use.
So my question here would be - can we make it faster? We have just been diagnosing a performance problem in nova due to rootwrap being a pkg_resources scripts entry point : just getting to the first line of main() takes 200ms, and we make dozens of subprocess calls (has to be, we're escalating privileges) to the script in question : that time is nearly entirely doing introspection of metadata from disk. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Cloud Services _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
