[Distutils] automating __version__' ing issues

[Robert Kern]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Reading that page, I'm not sure whether you want a scikits namespace 
> package in the first place. A namespace package is used to group 
> several projects under a single "owner", ala the various zope.* and 
> peak.* and plone.* packages.  However, nobody but Zope Corp. should 
> be releasing a zope.* package, and nobody but me releasing a peak.* 
> one.  The whole point is to "claim" a namespace for packages being 
> released by a single owner - either an organization or umbrella 
> project.  This corresponds to things like the 'org.apache' and 
> 'com.sun' package namespaces in Java - it's just a namespace to allow 
> authors free rein to put whatever modules and packages they like 
> under that namespace.

This is exactly what we are aiming for. While different people will be
responsbile for each subpackage, they are all operating under the aegis of the
scikits infrastructure.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco