> On Oct 19, 2017, at 4:04 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> 
> Like I said, I’m perfectly fine documenting that if you add an 
> entry_points.txt to the .dist-info directory, that is an INI file that 
> contains a section named “console_scripts” and define what is valid inside of 
> the console_scripts section that it will generate script wrappers, then fine. 
> But we should leave any other section in this entry_points.txt file as 
> undefined in packaging terms, and point people towards setuptools for more 
> information about it if they want to know anything more than what we need for 
> packaging.

To be more specific here, the hypothetical thing we would be 
documenting/standardizing here is console entry points and script wrappers, not 
a generic plugin system. So console scripts would be the focus of the 
documentation.
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