Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:06 AM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > .. >> >> So without specific examples of why this is a problem, it's hard to see why >> a special Python-specific set of configuration files is needed to resolve >> it, vs. say, encouraging application authors to use the available >> alternatives for doing plugin directories, config files, etc. > > I don't have a specific example in mind, and I must admit that if an > application does the right thing > (provide the right configuration file), this activate feature is not > useful at all. So it seems to be a bad idea. > > I propose that we drop the PLUGINS file idea and we add a new metadata > field called Provides-Plugin > in PEP 345, which will contain the info I've described minus the state > field. This will allow us to expose > plugins at PyPI. > > IOW, have entry points like setuptools provides, but in a metadata > field instead of a entry_points.txt file.
Do we really need to make Python packaging even more complicated by adding support for application-specific plugin mechanisms ? Packages can already work as application plugins by simply defining a plugins namespace package and then placing the plugin packages into that namespace. See Zope for an example of how well this simply mechanism works out in practice: it simply scans the "Products" namespace for sub-packages and then loads each sub-package it finds to have it register itself with Zope. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 02 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
