[Distutils] namespace_packages

[Charlie Moad]

Thanks for all your help.  It is finally working.  Another commit
pulled out my declare_nmsp in mpl/__init__.py and I needed to specify
the matplotlib module in basemap's setup.py for the __init__.py to get
included in the install.

Thanks again,
- Charlie

On 1/20/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 12:44 PM 01/20/2006 -0500, Charlie Moad wrote:
> >Here are the eggs if you want to unzip and look at them.  I installed
> >both unzipped.
> >
> >http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/~cmoad/mpleggs/matplotlib-0.86.2cvs-py2.4-linux-i686.egg
> >http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/~cmoad/mpleggs/basemap-0.8-py2.4-linux-i686.egg
>
> There are two issues that I saw.  First, the matplotlib egg above does not
> declare a namespace in its matplotlib/__init__.py.  Second, the basemap egg
> does not contain a matplotlib/__init__.py at all.
>
> Please note that you *must* include an __init__.py file for every namespace
> package and parent package thereof, in *every* egg that's part of the
> namespace package, and that these __init__.py files must all contain a
> namespace declaration.  Missing even one can cause problems.  For example,
> the basemap egg is simply not importable, because as far as Python is
> concerned it does not contain a matplotlib package (due to the missing
> __init__.py).
>
>