[Distutils] need guidance on state-of-the-art for entry points

2012-04-25 Thread Doug Hellmann
Dear Fellowship, I am starting a new project which will be heavily extensible using plugins defined in other people's packages over which I have little or no control. I was planning to use setuptools entry points to manage the plugin discovery, since it has worked so well for

Re: [Distutils] need guidance on state-of-the-art for entry points

2012-04-25 Thread Doug Hellmann
OK, thanks! On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote: Hi doug, currently just distribute/setuptools is the way to go, later on packaging/ds2 will probably provide a replacement, but thats currently not usable/feature complete -- Ronny On 04/25/2012 07:33 PM, Doug

[Distutils] documentation recommendations for Python 3 installs

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Jerdonek
I'd like advice on what instructions to provide to users (if any) to avoid what might be a common user error. I maintain a project written in Python 2, and I recently added support for Python 3 via 2to3 and the installation process. Recently, a Python 3 user got the source code, manually