Re: [Distutils] distribute and buildout: best practices?
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? ;-) 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.
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
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