[Python-Dev] Raising objections

[Walter Dörwald]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:11 AM 4/19/2006 +0200, Walter Dörwald wrote:
>>  With setuptools this doesn't work, because the package is distributed
>> over multiple egg-directories. AFAICR setuptools has a solution for
>> this, but only if the package __init__.py is empty (because setuptools
>> generates it). But I'd like to put at least a useful docstring into
>> this __init__.py.
> 
> Actually, I believe that recent versions of setuptools actually do
> support your use case.

Yes (except for the "docstring in __init__.py" bit).

> In fact, I seem to recall having emailed you
> once I got it to work with your scenario, and you told me you'd already
> decided not to use it.

Yes, however I'm still thinking about changing my package structure to
be able to use setuptools.

> But it's late at night now and I'm tired and
> should stop answering these emails for now anyway.

Servus,
   Walter