Éric Araujo wrote: >> What you might want to do is add new type fields to PEP 345, >> making it easier to identify and list packages that work as >> plugins for applications, e.g. >> >> Type: Plugin for MyCoolApp >> >> The MyCoolApp could then use the Type-field to identify all >> installed plugins, get their installation directories, etc. >> and work on from there. > > Classifiers seem a good way to do that. They’re already defined in > accepted PEPs, extensible on demand, used by Web frameworks > components/applications/middlewares/things and other projects, and > queriable in PyPI. > > We could use “Environment :: Plugins” and “Framework :: Something” or > define a new classifier (not all applications are frameworks, and > “plugins” seems a very strange value for “environment”).
This would work to mark plugins as such, but we'd still would have to have a field to name the app they belong to and I don't think that the process of adding new classifiers is flexible enough to handle those names. A Type field would be under application control and allow easy discovery of installed plugins for a specific app. > It would be the first time that a classifier triggers specific > processing from distutils though, so we may prefer to define a new > Provides-Plugin field for consistency and explicitness. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 03 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
