How do I write a setup.py for a twistd/twisted plugin that works with setuptools, distribute, etc?

Question

The Twisted Plugin System is the preferred way to write extensible twisted applications.

However, due to the way the plugin system is structured (plugins go into a

Answer 1

Here is a blog entry which describes doing it with 'package_data':

http://chrismiles.livejournal.com/23399.html

In what weird ways can that fail? It could fail if the installation of the package doesn't put the package data into a directory which is on the sys.path. In that case the Twisted plugin loader wouldn't find it. However, all installations of Python packages that I know of will put it into the same directory where they are installing the Python modules or packages themselves, so that won't be a problem.