[Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 9 16:34:28 CEST 2009


Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20090509 16:07], Chris Withers (chris at simplistix.co.uk) wrote:
>> They're also all pure namespace packages rather than base + addons, 
>> which is what we've been discussing...
> 
> But from Martin's email I understood it more as being base packages. Unless
> I misunderstood, of course.
> 
> If correct, which is it?

The list I gave you was a list of distributions that include namespace
packages (using the setuptools mechanism). I don't think that any of
them has the notion of a base package, as the setuptools mechanism
doesn't support base packages.

Regards,
Martin


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