[Distutils] requiring python 2.5

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:59 PM 6/15/2007 -0500, Rick Ratzel wrote:
>    Yes, I see now that it does get imported, but unfortunately not 
> by my code.
>It's imported as a result of importing pkg_resources, since 
>enthought.traits is
>a namespace package.

Does it *need* to be a namespace package?


>    Grasping at straws, I set enthought.__path__ in enstaller-script.py
>immediately before and after pkg_resources is imported, only to get the same
>results both times.
>
>    But when I switch to setuptools 0.7 there are no enthought.traits modules
>loaded at all (in fact, the only enthought. modules loaded are the enstaller
>ones)...this must have been one of the changes you mentioned.

Yes, that's exactly the change I'm talking about; in 0.7, namespace 
packages are always loaded lazily.


>    Phillip, I really appreciate the time you're taking to look at this.  I'm
>going to release a version which simply requires setuptools 0.7...unless you
>think that's a terrible idea, or you discover that I'm doing something wrong
>that I can fix.

The only things I can think of would be removing traits as a 
namespace package, or manually setting its __path__ also.  That is, 
first set enthought.__path__, then 
enthought.traits.__path__.  However, this will only work right if no 
traits.__init__ module does anything but declare the namespace.