[Distutils] Conflict between egg and standard package with same namespace

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jun 13 22:43:42 CEST 2007


At 09:09 PM 6/13/2007 +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>In my setup I have a zopyx.slimp egg inside site-package and a package
>zopyx.txng3. With this setup I can not longer import files from the 
>zopyx.txng3 package.
>
>ajung at galactica:~> ls /opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopyx*
>/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopyx.slimp-0.2.0-py2.4.egg
>
>/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopyx:
>__init__.py  __init__.pyc  txng3

What's inside of __init__.py here?  If it's not a namespace package 
declaration, it's not going to work.

Specifically, both projects must declare 'zopyx' as a namespace 
package, in order to distribute subpackages of it separately.



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