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# 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 dnf 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.