[Distutils] Handling the binary dependency management problem

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 December 2013 17:35, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Namespace packages have been tried with scikits - there's a reason why
> scikit-learn and statsmodels spent a lot of effort dropping them. They don't
> work. Scipy, while monolithic, works for users.

The namespace package emulation that was all that was available in
versions prior to 3.3 can certainly be a bit fragile at times. The
native namespace packages in 3.3+ should be more robust (although even
one package erroneously including an __init__.py file can still cause
trouble).

Cheers,
Nick.

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