Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:47 PM 5/15/2007 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: >> Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> >>> Reading that page, I'm not sure whether you want a scikits namespace >>> package in the first place. A namespace package is used to group >>> several projects under a single "owner", ala the various zope.* and >>> peak.* and plone.* packages. However, nobody but Zope Corp. should >>> be releasing a zope.* package, and nobody but me releasing a peak.* >>> one. The whole point is to "claim" a namespace for packages being >>> released by a single owner - either an organization or umbrella >>> project. This corresponds to things like the 'org.apache' and >>> 'com.sun' package namespaces in Java - it's just a namespace to allow >>> authors free rein to put whatever modules and packages they like >>> under that namespace. >> This is exactly what we are aiming for. While different people will be >> responsbile for each subpackage, they are all operating under the aegis of >> the >> scikits infrastructure. > > But who adds things to the namespace? Is there a single organization > that decides what packages or modules will exist in scikits?
Yes, the scipy developer team. mlabwrap is just the first scikits project. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
