[Distutils] "ignoring" eggs (was: Re: requiring python 2.5)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Jun 10 20:21:55 CEST 2007


At 01:45 AM 6/10/2007 -0500, Rick Ratzel wrote:
>    I ended up setting enthought.__path__ like you suggested, and 
> will probably
>stick with that rather than force users to upgrade to 0.7 right now.  However,
>I'm curious about how this is addressed in 0.7.  Is there a new API for doing
>this?

No; in 0.7 namespace packages are not automatically imported/created 
when pkg_resources is imported.  This means you would have the chance 
to manipulate sys.path and/or the working_set before the other eggs 
could get added to enthought.__path__.



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