[Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:41 PM 5/1/2009 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> >> It's unclear, however, who is using base packages besides mx.* and
> >> ll.*, although I'd guess from the PyPI listings that perhaps Django
> >> is.  (It seems that "base" packages are more likely to use a
> >> 'base-extension' naming pattern, vs. the 'namespace.project' pattern
> >> used by "pure" packages.)
> >
> > I'll stress it again in case you missed it the first time: I think the
> > main reason people use "pure namespace" versus "base namespace" packages
> > is because hardly anyone know how to do the latter, not because there is
> > no desire to do so!
> >
> > I, for one, have been trying to figure out how to do "base namespace"
> > packages for years...
>
>You mean, without PEP 382?
>
>That won't be possible, unless you can coordinate all addon packages.
>Base packages are a feature solely of PEP 382.

Actually, if you are using only the distutils, you can do this by 
listing only modules in the addon projects; this is how the ll.* 
tools are doing it.  That only works if the packages are all being 
installed in the same directory, though, not as eggs.