[Distutils] Installing subpackages under common superpackage

[Otto Maddox]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Ballet wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Otto Maddox wrote:
> > I have a Python project which follows a client-server architecture. It
> > is natural to develop it as two different projects and in two different
> > source distributions, myproject-server.tar.gz and
> > myproject-client.tar.gz.
> > 
> > Neither package depends on the other, but because they are part of a
> > larger, overarching project, I want install each of them so that they
> > appear as subpackages (myproject.server and myproject.client) under a
> > common superpackage (myproject). I am looking for the cleanest and most
> > correct way to do this using distutils and setup.py, so that I can end
> > up with a structure like this:

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> You would probably interested about setuptools' namespace support for
> doing this, you can have a look at
> http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#namespace-packages

That looks like it might be do the trick. I will evaluate this sort of
solution, and compare it with Rob's suggestion to use distutils2.

> Additionnaly, if you are looking for examples, the Zope community is
> well known for the use of namespaced packages - have a look at the
> zope.,  zc., z3c., collective., plone., etc. namespaces.

Thank you.

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