On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Hanno Schlichting <ha...@hannosch.eu> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: >> I assume most packages Reinout uses (like all zope.* packages) use >> namespace packages. So they actually do depend during runtime on the >> pkg_resources module, which happens to be available from either the >> distribute or setuptools distribution. So one of them should be >> specified in install_requires. > > This functionality should be factored out and merged with pkgutil in > the standard library.
Sure. That's what http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0382 is about. But both Python 2.7 and 3.2 are a bit into the future, so it doesn't help with the current question. Hanno _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
