[Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

[Chris Withers]

P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 06:15 PM 4/15/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> The much more common use case is that of wanting to have a base package
>> installation which optional add-ons that live in the same logical
>> package namespace.
> 
> Please see the large number of Zope and PEAK distributions on PyPI as 
> minimal examples that disprove this being the common use case.  

If you mean "the common use case as opposed to having code in the 
__init__.py of the namespace package", I think you'll find that's 
because people (especially me!) don't know how to do this, not because 
we don't want to!

Chris - who would actually like to know how to do this, with or without 
the PEP, and how to indicate interdependencies in situations like this 
to setuptools...

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