Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-21 Thread Ethan Jucovy
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Iain Duncan iainduncanli...@gmail.comwrote: thanks guys, Ethan that sounds like exactly what I'm looking for! Can anyone ooint me at good examples of the combination? Maybe not ;-) Plone has been using z3c.autoinclude since .. 3.3 iirc, but I don't know

Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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

Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-15 Thread Michael Mulich
Iain- I'll offer my two cents. But first, I want to suggest the use of Extensions (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/extensions) opposed to setuptools style entrypoints. Distutils2, the successor to Distutils and therefore Setuptools, will not support entry points as part of the distribution setup.

Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-15 Thread Martin Aspeli
On 15 November 2010 21:21, Michael Mulich mr...@psu.edu wrote: Part of my decision to use entry points was from my experience at pycon. People hear reference to zope and either cringe or run away. So if people see zope.* as a dependency they decide not to use use it. ;) I think this is one of

Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-15 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 11/15/2010 02:48 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote: On 15 November 2010 21:21, Michael Mulichmr...@psu.edu wrote: Part of my decision to use entry points was from my experience at pycon. People hear reference to zope and either cringe or run away. So if people see zope.* as a dependency they decide

Re: [Repoze-dev] entry points vs ZCA registrations

2010-11-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
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