On 19 July 2013 09:35, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure, I hadn't even the idea of letting people register arbitrary > "we install this script". Heck, I haven't even worked out what I want > the format to look like :) >
That's the big legacy issue. The old distutils script= argument just dumps arbitrary files into the scripts location. I thought people only used that for the same thing that setuptools entry points can do (and so could safely be treated as "legacy, phase it out") but Daniel has scanned PyPI and tells me otherwise :-( There's also setuptools itself, which generates exes and py files (on Windows, on Unix presumably just a #! script) which are then effectively "legacy-style" scripts It could certainly be changed to just write metadata, but as per the other thread this would be a functionality change that people seem to feel would be unacceptable. > I'll take that into account now, though. > Best of luck :-) Paul
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