On 19 October 2017 at 04:18, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> wrote:
> Daniel Holth kirjoitti 18.10.2017 klo 21:06: > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html? > highlight=entry_points.txt#entry-points-txt-entry-point-plugin-metadata > > http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources. > html?highlight=pkg_resources#creating-and-parsing > > It is not very complicated. It looks like the characters are mostly > 'python identifier' rules with a little bit of 'package name' rules. > > I am also concerned about the amount of parsing on startup. A hard problem > for certain, since no one likes outdated cache problems either. It is also > unpleasant to have too much code with a runtime dependency on 'packaging'. > > Wasn't someone working on implementing pkg_resources in the standard > library at some point? > The idea has been raised, but we've been hesitant for the same reason we're inclined to take distutils out: packaging APIs need to be free to evolve in line with packaging interoperability standards, rather than with the Python language definition. Barry Warsaw & Brett Cannon recently mentioned something to me about working on a potential runtime alternative to pkg_resources that could be installed without also installing setuptools, but I don't know any of the specifics (and I'm not sure either of them follows distutils-sig). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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