Why not use the cli as the projects entrypoint

[WaylonWalker]

If I render out a new project with kedro==0.17.2 I get the following entrypoint inside of my setup.py.

entry_point = (
    "new-kedro-project = new_kedro_project.__main__:main"
)

If I look at __main__:main I see.

def main():
    configure_project(Path(__file__).parent.name)
    run()

Why not utilize the existing projects cli by pointing the entrypoint at new_kedro_project.cli:cli?

Just looking for some rationale, or if there would be interest in a PR to change the template.

[limdauto]

Hi @WaylonWalker, the rationale is we want to have the same entrypoint for running Kedro in both CLI and package mode, i.e. python -m new_kedro_project. This allows us to make sure that both run modes can support the same set of CLI args. To use the python -m idiom, however, we need a __main__.py as instructed by https://docs.python.org/3/library/__main__.html