[Distutils] Bilingual namespace package conundrum

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/01/2015 04:57 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

> I’m pretty sure the problem with setup.py develop and setup.py install
> is because they are installed as eggs more or less and setuptools
> probably doesn’t support it. pip install <whatever> installs it
> unpacked so it’ll rely on built in importing.

I'm puzzled by that notion:  'setup.py develop' and 'setup.py install'
have worked for a decade with namespace packages, as long as the __init__
for them does the Right Thing (using either pkg_resources or pkgutil).

What has never worked properly is mixing pip installation of namespace
packages with easy_install installation of packages in the same
namespace:  pip's "install in one directory without fixups" stragedy
screws up the __path__ for the namespace packages installed elsewhere.


Tres.
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