On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:32 -0700, David Borowitz wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 13:31, Augie Fackler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On May 26, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Borowitz wrote: > > I'm definitely open to the idea of simplifying and/or > combining dul-daemon > and dul-web. To be honest, it feels a little messy > every time I have to add > more code to one of those scripts. In my ideal world, > these wrapper scripts > would contain as little code as possible (basically > "if __name__ == > '__main__': start_server('http', sys.argv[1:])"). > > Another possibility that moves in a slightly different > direction is to use > setuptools's entry points: > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation > > > <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation>(Tangentially, > the reason I added the logging code to dul-web was > that I didn't want to put > the WSGI handlers in web.py, since wsgiref is not part > of the python2.4 > standard library. That said, every python2.4 system I > have has wsgiref > installed, and I'm sure we could come up with a > conditional import scheme > that fails gracefully.) > > > I'd be a _huge_ fan of using entry points instead of > maintaining scripts - manually maintained scripts are often a > colossal pain when using something like virtualenv or > buildout. > > > I agree, that's why I suggested it :)
> The only downside as far as I can see is that it introduces a > dependency on setuptools, but pretty much everyone has setuptools > anyway (don't they?). Maybe it's possible to do something equivalent > with distutils but I don't know how. FWIW I didn't have setuptools installed until I received a patch for Dulwich that added support for it to setup.py. Is there any particular benefit in using entry points rather than using a trivial stub script that does "from dulwich.server import start_server; start_server(sys.argv[1:])" ? Cheers, Jelmer
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