<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">I think this was based on the assumption that *existing* namespace</div>
package approaches would break under the new scheme. Since that is not<br>
the case, I suspect those previous objections were overstated (and all<br>
packaging related code manages to cope well enough with modules where<br>
the file name doesn't match the package name)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was actually referring to all the code that does things like split package names on '.' and then use os.path.join, or that makes assumptions which are the moral equivalent of that. PEP 402's version of namespace packages should break less of that sort of code than adding a directory name extension.</div>
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