On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 07:18:44PM +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote: > Hello, > a python application isn't a binary but a script. So to invoke such an > application there need to be a shell script somewhere in PATH that invoke > that script via python3 interpreter. Imagine an application with a GUI (qt, > tikinter, gtk, ...). > > On the upstream site modern python projects using pyproject.toml (only), > some use setup.cfg. > There you can define "entry points" and the "pip" installer does generate a > shell script based on that information and place it in PATH. > That is a nice mechanism when installing via pip. > > On your site as distro maintainers. How do you take care of then when > creating deb files? I feel like this question is not really specific to pyproject.toml etc.: entry points are an old concept and we have a lot of packages shipping setuptools entry points (grep your /usr/bin for "load_entry_point"). For these packages the executable is indeed created automatically by the packaging tools, and I would expect the same to happen for any other supported setuptools replacement. -- WBR, wRAR
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