entrypoints: Discover and load entry points from installed Python packages

Description

Discover and load entry points from installed packages.

Upstream Contact

https://github.com/takluyver/entrypoints

Special Update/Build Instructions

Upstream does not provide a source tarball, so the tarball was taken from github and renamed.

The source tarball does not contain setup.py, so we put the setup commands in spkg-install.

Type

standard

Dependencies

• $(PYTHON)

• $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

• flit_core: Distribution-building parts of Flit. See flit package for more information

Version Information

package-version.txt:

0.4

version_requirements.txt:

entrypoints >=0.3

Equivalent System Packages

conda-forge

$ conda install entrypoints

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

$ sudo yum install python3-entrypoints

Gentoo Linux

$ sudo emerge dev-python/entrypoints

MacPorts

$ sudo port install py-entrypoints

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install python3-entrypoints

See https://repology.org/project/entrypoints/versions, https://repology.org/project/python:entrypoints/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option --enable-system-site-packages is passed to ./configure, then ./configure will check if the system package can be used.