[TIP] Coming changes to unittest2 plugins

[Michael Foord]

  On 27/09/2010 15:47, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Michael Foord<michael at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>   [snip...]
>>   I expect to change configuration
>> to look like:
>>
>> package.module:Class
>>
>> I hate the colon but it is how entry points do it *anyway*. Function based
>> plugins will still be possible, but will *require* an initialization
>> function that takes the hook set.
> Minor nitpick: I don't think you need a colon here. After some
> discussion we are dropping it in distutils2 in all places where we
> point code, since it's easy to find which part is the module and which
> part is not when configuring a code location.
>
> see distutils2.util.resolve_name()
>
> A "location.replace(':', '.')" is a simple way to make it
> setuptools-compatible if this is wished.

Ok. Being compatible with the distutils2 extension mechanism is more 
important to me than following the setuptools convention (I do hate that 
colon)... :-)

All the best,

Michael Foord

> Regards
> Tarek
>


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