[Distutils] Proper handling of PEP420 namespace packages with setuptools and pip

[Robert Collins]

On 23 April 2015 at 08:16, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> On 04/22/2015 03:25 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 22.04.2015 21:08, Robert Collins wrote:
>>> So - pip would have to a) detect both styles of package, b)
>>> automatically install all installed-but-wrong-style versions to match
>>> the site installed ones. And if any of the packages in the namespace
>>> only support legacy, everything would be clamped down to legacy.
>>
>> I don't think support mixed setups is really a practical option.
>
> Isn't it supposed to be a supported feature?
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/#migrating-from-legacy-namespace-packages
>
> I realize I should know this, but it's been a while since I wrote it.
> And I'd swear there are test for this, but I can't find them right now.
> But I'm away from home and will have more time to research this later.

I'm not sure if that was done. Certainly the caveat there - no dynamic
path support - is somewhat key for the scenarios I was looking at
(e.g. tests in the current tree using 'setup develop' / pip install -e
.

-Rob

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