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Fri Jul 30 20:19:14 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102555.html

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
>> It has an API, but the plugins are not interface based (so interface
>> requirements don't need to be part of the plugin system).
>
> Oh, I see. With duck-typing and ABCs, I don’t make a difference between
> protocols and interfaces in my head :) Also, the I in API does mean
> interface, but not imply bondage-and-discipline interface systems.
>
>> PEP 376 is *very* promising for this part - well at least if the PLUGINS
>> stuff becomes part of PEP 376, it doesn't seem to be mentioned at all at
>> the moment.
>
> The dist-info directory introduced by PEP 376 will certainly be reused.
> Not sure if Tarek will want to edit PEP 376 (already accepted) to add
> plugins in metadata (provides-dist is in metadata, so having plugins
> here can make sense), or start a new PEP about a new concept in a new file.

What we want to do I think is to make dist-info a place when any file
can be added,
besides the ones described in PEP 376, then build the plugins proposal on this

>
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