[Distutils] Pondering multi-package packages

[Andrew Kuchling]

Greg Ward writes:
>The easiest solution is zero-byte __init__.py files.  Then
>auto-generation is a snap, and there's no need to worry about mxDateTime
>clobbering the mx/__init__.py from mxTextTools (or vice-versa).

Note that WinZip, which is commonly used, doesn't archive zero-length
files under some circumstances; occasionally people run into this when
they unzip a directory and can't import from the package.  Hence the
convention of just putting a comment in __init__.py, to avoid having a
zero-length file.

--amk