[Distutils] Buildout + namespace packages + Django management commands?

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:48 PM 9/19/2009 +0100, Kyle MacFarlane wrote:
>The way setuptools (and thus buildout) does namespace packages 
>doesn't work with how Django looks for management commands. Django 
>only looks in the first package in the namespace on the system path 
>and ignores the rest.

If they use the package's __path__ attribute, they'll find its 
contents, whether someone is using pkgutil.extend_path, .pth files, 
or setuptools.  They don't have to support setuptools to support 
namespace packages, just pay attention to the __path__ variable 
that's part of standard Python.