[Distutils] distribute and buildout: best practices?

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 02:51 PM 10/13/2009 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>> Really the run-time
>> code needed to support namespace packages should be split out into a
>> separate package and eventually added to the standard library.
>
> Are you volunteering?  ;-)

No. :) I'd love to, but I'm over committed as it is.

> Seriously, MvL's namespace package PEP (#382) already takes care of most
> everything that's needed.  With it in place, the only advantage of
> setuptools' approach is the ability to add more items to a package __path__
> after it's already imported.  (i.e., the fixup feature.)
>
> I heartily approve of that PEP, in case it's not obvious.  I'd love to see
> it in Python 2.7, and will happily add support for it in setuptools 0.7.

Awesome!

Jim
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Jim Fulton