[Distutils] Setuptools, namespace packages, --single-version-externally-managed

[Ian Bicking]

Any ideas on this?  Phillip?

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:

> So, a bit of a problem came up with pip and namespace packages.  Here's my
> understanding of what's going on:
>
> When you install a namespace package with pip, it uses install
> --single-version-externally-managed, and generally the namespace directory
> is empty and there's a *.nspkg.pth file that has this:
>
> import sys,new,os; p = os.path.join(sys._getframe(1).f_locals['sitedir'],
> *('<NAMESPACE>',)); ie = os.path.exists(os.path.join(p,'__init__.py')); m =
> not ie and sys.modules.setdefault('zope',new.module('zope')); mp = (m or [])
> and m.__dict__.setdefault('__path__',[]); (p not in mp) and mp.append(p)
>
> So the lack of an __init__.py file doesn't really matter, because it's
> created right there, and has its __path__ added to.  But there's a problem
> when there's another namespace package elsewhere on the path, that wasn't
> installed with pip (or Setuptools) and uses pkgutils.extend_path(__path__,
> __name__).  This doesn't get imported because of that .pth file, and the
> .pth file doesn't itself use extend_path, so the path isn't searched.  This
> is currently happening with Zope packages installed with plain distutils,
> then another package installed with the zope namespace elsewhere with pip.
> (When using easy_install, I think pkg_resource.declare_namespace comes into
> play somewhere, and this seems to handle this case, but I'm not sure why the
> installation is different with pip.)
>
> So... what should pip be doing differently to make this work?
>
>
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