On Friday, October 20, 2017, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, at 01:36 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > Entry points have a lot of problems and I know of multiple systems that > have either moved away from them, had to hack around how bad they are, have > refused to implement them because of previous pain felt by them, are > looking for ways to eliminate them, or which just regret ever supporting > them. > > > The fate of the PR notwithstanding, I'd be interested in hearing more > about what problems projects have experienced with entry points, if you > have time to describe some examples. We're looking at using them in more > places than we already do, so it would be useful to hear about drawbacks we > might not have thought about, and about what other options projects have > moved to. > > Thomas > What were the issues with setuptools entry points here (in 2014, when you two were opposed to adding them to sendibly list ipython extensions)? https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/4673 https://github.com/ipython/ipython/compare/master...westurner:setuptools_entry_points
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