On 11/14/10 05:32 , Shane Hathaway wrote: > On 11/12/2010 03:17 PM, Iain Duncan wrote: >> Reading some of the diaolgue on the pylons/bfg merger has me curious >> about the following, wondering if any experts care to share opinions and >> war stories: >> >> - what is the best use case for extending through entry points? >> - why/when would you use entry points and entires in an ini file vs >> registering modules/plugins as zca entries? >> - pros and cons of each approach? > > With ZCA, you can register components temporarily for a test. You can > create a short-lived component registry. You can create multiple > registries for different parts of the application. You can store > registries in a database. Whatever makes sense. > > With entry points, can you do any of that? Entry points seem far more > limiting. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Entry points work without you having to configure and python, zcml, etc. code, which makes them a better fit for some tasks. Wichert. _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
