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[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 09:08:39 CET 2011 
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:56:16PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> > That (below) is not distutils it is setuptools. distutils just uses
> > `scripts=[...]`, which annoyingly *doesn't* work with setuptools.
> 
> Right; distutils scripts are just sad.
> 
> OTOH, entry-point based scripts are something setuptools got very,
> very right.  Probably not perfect, but... I've not yet needed anything
> different in practice.
> 
Some of them can be annoying as hell when dealing with a system that also
installs multiple versions of a module.  But one could argue that's the
fault of setuptools' version handling rather than the entry-points
handling.

-Toshio
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