From: Paul Moore
> On 18 July 2013 08:57, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Shipping an msi installer for pip (perhaps bundling with setuptools)
>> would also be an acceptable alternative.
>
> -1.
>
> I would suggest that this approach, if it were considered seriously, should be
> reviewed carefully by someo
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Extras should just be a way to ask "are these optional dependencies present
> on this system?", without needing to worry about how they got there.
Technically, they are a way to ask "can you get this for me?", since
pkg_resources' API allows
On 21 July 2013 16:46, PJ Eby wrote:
> Now that I'm thinking about it some more, one of the motivating use
> cases for extras in entry points was startup performance in
> plugin-heavy GUI applications like Chandler. The use of extras allows
> for late-loading of additions to sys.path. IOW, it's
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 21 July 2013 16:46, PJ Eby wrote:
>>
>> Now that I'm thinking about it some more, one of the motivating use
>> cases for extras in entry points was startup performance in
>> plugin-heavy GUI applications like Chandler. The use of extras al
On 22 Jul 2013 01:46, "PJ Eby" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Extras should just be a way to ask "are these optional dependencies
present
> > on this system?", without needing to worry about how they got there.
>
> Technically, they are a way to ask "can you
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> On 22 Jul 2013 01:46, "PJ Eby" wrote:
>>
>> Now that I'm thinking about it some more, one of the motivating use
>> cases for extras in entry points was startup performance in
>> plugin-heavy GUI applications like Chandler. The use of extra
