On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 02:51 PM 10/13/2009 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
Really the run-time code needed to support namespace packages should be split out into a separate package and eventually added to the standard library.
Are you volunteering? ;-)
No. :) I'd love to, but I'm over committed as it is.
Seriously, MvL's namespace package PEP (#382) already takes care of most everything that's needed. With it in place, the only advantage of setuptools' approach is the ability to add more items to a package __path__ after it's already imported. (i.e., the fixup feature.)
I heartily approve of that PEP, in case it's not obvious. I'd love to see it in Python 2.7, and will happily add support for it in setuptools 0.7.
Awesome! Jim -- Jim Fulton